Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As many stay tuned to Paris Fashion Week, an unlikely fashion trend has popped up among the Parisian street-style set: chainmail.

A 2D mechanically interlocked polymer mimicking chainmail shows high flexibility and stiffness, offering promise for lightweight protective and smart armor systems. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at ...

(via SciShow) Chainmail might be known best as the fashion choice of certain medieval warriors, but that doesn't mean it's a relic of the past. Modern chainmail can be both practical and fashionable.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Georgia Somary wants to turn people’s homes into “contemporary castles”, where historically inspired decor ...

NASA is usually associated with forward thinking ideas. Sometimes however, the best ideas come from looking into the past. For example their latest idea for a rover tire design took inspiration from a ...

Chemists have invented a new material that could be the future of body armor — chainmail. But this isn't the Middle Ages all over again; the new super-strong material is made of molecules that are ...

No one was more surprised than medieval armourer Matthew Finchen. One of the most memorable looks from all of London Fashion Week was not made in an airy studio in Stoke Newington, but crafted with a ...