Scientists have developed a method to convert fish scales into bendable screens that could be used in a range of portable electronics. The process was developed by a team of researchers from Nanjing ...

FISH SCALES have to be tough, to provide protection, flexible, to permit movement and light, to preserve buoyancy. These conflicting requirements have driven the evolution of scales that can endure ...

IN DAYS of old, knights protected themselves in armour made up of tough, interlocking “scales”. This idea might one day be revisited, with future soldiers decked out in scales inspired by the almost ...