What if the rubber became narrower and thinner? Such common-sense-defying materials do exist. They're called auxetics, and they have a raft of unique properties that make them well-suited for sneaker ...

Most materials get thinner when stretched, but “auxetics” do the opposite and get thicker. Helen Gleeson describes her group’s discovery of a material that is auxetic at the molecular level, which ...

Imagine you wake up one morning burning to make the great physicist Max Planck's face out of copper. (Just go with it.) Sure, you could sculpt it, but there's a better way. Cut a flat copper sheet ...

The risk of injury in professional sport has been a central feature in recent debates about how well protected our stars are. Only recently, Argentine football player Emanuel Ortega died of a fatal ...

Auxetic material girl Daphne Attard talks to Tech Sunday about how the University of Malta Auxetics Group has gained a leading edge in the field of auxetics. Daphne Attard, 27, has always nursed a ...

There are young children celebrating the holidays this year with their families, thanks to the 3D-printed medical devices created in the lab of Georgia Tech researcher Scott Hollister. For more than ...

Auxetics defy common sense, widening when stretched and narrowing when compressed. NIST researchers have now made the process of using them much easier. Such common-sense-defying materials do exist.

Such common-sense-defying materials do exist. They’re called auxetics, and they have a raft of unique properties that make them well-suited for sneaker insoles, bomb-resilient buildings, car bumpers ...