Small clothing retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers primarily focus on demographics, personalities and needs when segmenting their markets. This allows them to better reach non-buying ...

Scientists have developed an innovative laser technology that mimics shark's skin to create bacteria-resistant metal surfaces ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our critic explains the difference between the cost to manufacture a piece of clothing and the price you end up paying for it, and how tariffs might affect these markups. By Vanessa Friedman I’m ...

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 ...

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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