šš Physicists at Heinrich-Heine University #Düsseldorf and Wayne State University studied "rotating #crystals" made of spinning particles that exhibit "odd elasticity," causing them to twist instead of stretch when pulled.
These materials can spontaneously fragment into smaller spinning units and later reassemble themselves, behaviors also observed in biological systems like groups of #starfish embryos that rotate around one another through coordinated swimming motions.
š https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251021083635.htm
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