Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A curiosity about tiny dots on a germanium wafer ...

NARRATOR: This song is all about shapes. Not flat shapes like circles and squares, but solid shapes like cubes and cones. Let’s start with a cube. It’s difficult to make yourself into a cube ...

As a collective, the robots behaved like a material that could change shape and switch between solid and liquid states, just like the T-1000. The T-1000 was a marvel to behold, but the movie gave ...

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of ...

They can also temporarily soften, switching between solid and fluid states to develop ... robotic units that could assemble into different shapes. The team's next step is to miniaturize the ...