Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists create a shape-shifting material that snaps into 13 forms using stored energy and magnetic fields. (CREDIT: Nature ...

A new kind of shape-shifting material can twist, bend, and snap into more than a dozen three-dimensional forms—no motors or wires required. Using stored elastic energy, it transforms itself much like ...

“This model allows us to program the shape we want to create, how stable it is, and how powerful it can be when stored potential energy is released,” said Yaoye Hong, the study’s first author and now ...