Sliding on ice is a familiar experience. Faraday hypothesized that ice forms spontaneously a thin quasi-liquid layer on its surface.

Physicists have discovered a new way to coat soft robots in materials that allow them to move and function in a more purposeful way.

Researchers have found that learning -- a universal feature of intelligence in living beings -- can be mimicked in synthetic matter.

Years of meticulous experimentation have paid off for researchers aiming to unify the physics that defines transition from solid to liquid.