Now, Manu Prakash and colleagues at Stanford University in California have created a system that combines the control of both information and matter at the same time. Their circuits are based on ...

After all, if the circuits are made from liquid metal, they can be stretched, folded, squeezed, and so on and so forth, without breaking.

Now, experiments show that the brain circuits in mice that help the tongue lick water may be the same ones that help primates reach out to grasp objects, scientists report online May 19 in Nature.