A graduate student accidentally created a blend of oil, water and nickel particles that formed an unexpected shape.

The result is a strange "shape-recovering liquid" that forms a Grecian urn shape no matter how much it is shaken. Certain liquids do not want to play together: for an easy example, oil and water.

This liquid mixture consistently took the shape of a Grecian urn The liquid defied thermodynamics by not minimising ...

A team of researchers led by a physics graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently made the surprising discovery of what they call a “shape-recovering liquid,” which defies ...