A new fire-retardant paint, formulated by engineers at UNSW Sydney, has become the first to pass a stringent Australian standard test that simulates a bushfire attack. The paint, which is now on sale ...

An invisible coating that can “fireproof” wood has been invented by scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore). With the popularity of mass engineered timber growing in ...

A new fire-retardant paint, formulated over five years by engineers at the University of New Wales, has become the first to pass a stringent Australian standard test that simulates a bushfire attack.

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