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Building Stronger Body Armor

Jan. 22, 2020 • 5 min. read

Texas A&M researchers are part of a team that has found that adding silicon to a material used to make body armor can make it more resilient to firearms.

A team lead by a Texas A&M professor are studying machine learning algorithms that could improve prosthetic devices.