With Mother's Day fast approaching (Sunday, 30 March), now is the perfect time to plan something special for the maternal ...

While human skin shares gel-like characteristics, it has unique qualities that are very hard to replicate. It combines high stiffness with flexibility, and it has remarkable self-healing ...

Jelly-like materials called hydrogels can stay squishy even at extreme temperatures, thanks to a method that locks in their water 1. Hydrogels are built from 3D networks of long polymer molecules ...