Bomb blasts send waves of highly compressed wind away from the explosion, followed by a two-second thermal blast. That blast heats anything in its way to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and people caught up ...

Soliders aren't exactly the first people you think of when you think of make-up. They're certainly not featured in the glossy pages of the fashion magazines. But soldiers actually rely on makeup for ...

A new type of camouflage makeup is able to protect wearers from skin burns. Scientists at the University of Southern Mississippi developed the makeup for use in combat situations, but the team plans ...

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 22, 2012 — Camouflage face makeup for warfare is undergoing one of the most fundamental changes in thousands of years, as scientists today described a new face paint that both hides ...

Camouflage face paint can make a soldier invisible to enemy eyes. But it won't shield him from the searing heat of a roadside bomb, a lethal 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit. And the greases and oils in the ...

Face-recognition technology is already helping surveillance cameras pick out individual faces of suspects, and even smartphone apps may soon allow you to ID strangers ...

A few years ago, the Department of Defense put out an odd request: They wanted researchers to make a better makeup. Specifically, they wanted a makeup that could protect soldiers’ faces from the ...