Researchers led by Rice University's Yong Lin Kong have developed a soft but strong metamaterial that can be controlled remotely to rapidly transform its size and shape. Metamaterials are synthetic ...

Studies of four different metamorphic proteins revealed that cold temperature can induce a transformation from one state to another. In each example, the low temperature (Low T) state is less ordered ...

The shape of an antenna’s front end dictates many of its operating parameters. Once it’s manufactured, those characteristics are locked in. A shape-changing antenna would enable communications across ...