After years of flocking to our local Tesco to snag the supermarket own-brand's trendiest pieces, F&F Clothing is finally back and available to shop online again after a seven-year hiatus off the back ...

Boom’s recent supersonic tests included an experimental sharkskin-like material that makes the aircraft smoother and therefore more efficient. Developed by Micro Tau in Australia, the riblet-skinned ...

The gray underbelly is the section with the sharkskin material. The inset shows its microscopic ridges. The first XB-1 flights were initially subsonic flights to test the material’s adhesive ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A material with microscopic grooves mimicking those of shark skin could help commercial airliners – and even supersonic jets or military aircraft – save on fuel and reduce carbon emissions ...

Credit: Lufthansa Technik In the early 1970s, German biologist Wolf-Ernst Reif was studying sharkskin fossils when newly available scanning electron microscopes enabled him to discover small ...

Inspired by the naturally antimicrobial textures of cicada wings and shark skin, micro- and nanoscale textures at the scale of bacterial cells make it difficult for bacteria to attach. They also ...

"These nanoscale and microscale surface textures mimic natural antimicrobial surfaces, such as those found on cicada wings and shark skin." The researchers discovered the laser-texturing technique ...

A huge fire that erupted at a clothing market in Ghana’s capital Accra has destroyed hundreds of livelihoods and businesses. The fire at Kantamanto Market – one of the world’s largest ...

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