With all the talk about steroids and human growth hormones, tainted records in baseball and cheating in Tour de France, there's a plastics angle that gets unfairly lumped in the mix. It's protective ...

PASADENA – Jorge Candelas spent eight months perfecting the look of his Imperial biker scout uniform. He watched the “Star Wars” movies over and over, making sure the plastic armor on his uniform sat ...

In a faraway village, in the kingdom of Avacal, lives a smithy named Ivar the Black. This smithy works not in iron or leather, but rather in high density polyethylene. He makes neither horseshoes nor ...

The Army & Navy last week revealed another military secret: body armor—the first to be widely worn by foot soldiers since the Middle Ages—saved the life of many a World War II marine, soldier and ...

The human body and sharp objects don’t get along very well, especially when they are being wielded with ill-intent. Since ...

The Force was with him! A stormtrooper costume saved a “Star Wars” fan from a poisonous snake bite. Scott Loxley was attacked by a deadly King Brown serpent as he walked near Yalboroo in Australia on ...