NASA is working on shape memory alloy tires for future missions to Mars, figuring out ways to give rovers and more an airless, shapeshifting wheel. While NASA's Perseverance rover is headed off to ...

Since his postdoctoral days at MIT, Hang Yu, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has been wrestling ...

Manfred Wuttig, a material scientist at the University of Maryland who helped lead the team, said the metal's "fortuitous discovery," was part of a long, frustrating hunt for durable shape-memory ...

A new kind of memory effect discovered in two Transition Metal Oxides could carry important repercussions on technology and security. The multi-state nature of the memory effect, whereby more than one ...

Let’s go on a mission. Finally, you’ll have to leave Base Camp and start spearing zombies, all in the name of data recovery. To unlock more functions and crafting recipes in Metal Gear Survive, you’ll ...

HOWEVER much a shape-memory alloy is pulled and beaten about, a temperature change can push it back into its original form. But how does it remember what shape it should be? One theory says the memory ...

Researchers invented a new data storage method by making odd numbered layers slide relative to even-number layers in tungsten ditelluride, which is only 3nm thick. The arrangement of these atomic ...