Steve Mould, a wizard, demonstrates the properties...  ...unusual potion called polyethylene oxide. It's a polymer that seems to pour itself if you tip the containe...

This picture looks like some tube-shaped creatures...  ...oscope photograph shows self-assembling hair-like polymers around a polystyrene sphere, about two micrometer...

Image: Russell Taylor, Briana Whitaker and Briana...  ...Chapel HillBeautiful flowers? Not quite - they're polymer pillars serendipitously photographed by researche...  ...ces by watching how forests of 10-micrometer-tall polymer pillars bend when they place the cells on top of...

Forget electronics, the coolest thing in robotics...  ...made the colour-changing, motile gel by combining polymers that change in size depending on their chemical e...  ...l that moves without electronic stimulation. [...] Polymers used in the gel shrink and grow in response to ru...