Soft elastic material uses energy-free floppy modes to perform and reprogram calculations, enabling smarter robots and ...

Electricity is the lifeblood of modern life, but even the most efficient power lines lose energy along the way. For decades, ...

Isaac Newton may have met his match. For centuries, engineers have relied on physical laws -- developed by Newton and others -- to understand the stresses and strains on the materials they work with.

Scientists have shed new light on the kinetics of hydrogen release, or dehydrogenation, from aluminum hydride, a material that is highly promising for energy storage. Their computer simulations also ...

Researchers developed a machine-learning technique that uses an image to estimate the stresses and strains acting on a material. The advance could accelerate engineers' design process by eliminating ...