Thin polymer discs self-propel by repeated 'snapping' motions. (Credit: Yongjin Kim, UMass Amherst) A polymer-based gel made by researchers in the US and inspired by the Venus flytrap plant can snap, ...

If you've ever watched a glass blower at work, you've seen a material behaving in a very special way. As it cools, the viscosity of molten glass increases steadily but gradually, allowing it to be ...

A physics informed machine learning model predicts thermal conductivity from infrared images in milliseconds, enabling fast, ...