New research shows robotic materials can learn and adapt without software, storing behavior directly in their structure.

John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even ...

Acoustic metamaterials are a fast-evolving family of materials which manipulate sound waves in ever more advanced ways. Now, a team led by Changqing Xu at Nanjing Normal University in China has ...

Metamaterials are rationally designed macroscopic structures engineered to respond to external excitations in a tailorable and unconventional fashion. This allows them to achieve properties that are ...

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam have developed a new class of metamaterials that ...

In a new Nature Physics publication, University of Amsterdam researchers introduce human-made materials that spring to life.

A coating that can hide objects in plain sight, or an implant that behaves exactly like bone tissue: These extraordinary objects are already made from 'metamaterials'. Researchers have now developed ...

Owing to the wave nature of light there are many ways that such different waves can interact with each other, but also with materials. Everyone knows about reflecting light with a mirror, which is a ...