And, despite Superbot's impressive morphing abilities, Shen said DARPA's vision of a liquid-like robot was still a long way beyond existing technology.
In response to this idea, Dr Kravchenko and his colleagues have proposed that a liquid-like phase of the electrons may explain their observations.
They've shown that a synthetically grown sample of herbertsmithite crystal (what you see above) behaves as a quantum spin liquid: a material where fractional quantum states produce a liquid-like flux in magnetic orientations, even if the material is solid.
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Dry water resembles a very fine powder (like icing sugar or flour) that has a slightly more liquid-like appearance when it flows, and if you squeeze some of it in your hand hard enough the powder combines to give you a few drops.
After orchestrating 2 million collisions between lead nuclei and protons, like the sort you see above, the collider's Compact Muon Solenoid group and researchers at MIT suspect that stray, linked pairs of gluon particles in the mix were signs of color-glass condensate, a currently theory-only form of matter that sees gluons travel in liquid-like, quantum-entangled waves.
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One reason China is setting up its sovereign wealth fund now is that huge trade surpluses and a vast reserve of foreign exchange mean it simply has too much cash to absorb into its own economy, and capital controls keep it from investing in liquid assets like American T-bills.
Many ADRs are very liquid, others like those that trade over-the-counter on the pink sheets can be illiquid so the bid and asked spread are higher.
But these days it's leaning more toward clean diesel engines that get high mileage and can run on newly popular fuels like gas-to-liquid synthetic diesel or biodiesel.
The group infused a plastic-like polymer with microscopic capsules containing a liquid healing agent.
The Hailstorm gaming computer with the new Sub-Zero Liquid Chilled System fully maximizes the potential for each component like no other system we've ever built.
"I would still like to keep that as liquid as possible and as risk-free as possible, but I'm not really happy with the available options, " he says.
With little more than a spout-like tap and a bucket, people are looting the liquid out of trees on private property and hauling it away to turn into sweet maple syrup.
Like the Liquid Gallant Duo, the Solo's public presence was short-lived, as the user manual (linked below) has since been pulled from Acer's website.
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As we write in our magazine profile of the company, Chief David Steiner is investing in a handful of far-out technologies he hopes will be able to turn trash into more valuable commodities like liquid fuels.
The mating song of the male has been described as beginning with a resonant rattle, continuing with a pop-like a cork being pulled from a wine bottle, followed by the pouring of a liquid out of a narrow-necked bottle and ending with the sound of knife grinding.
Some work like detergents, disrupting the membrane that surrounds an individual virus in the way that washing-up liquid disrupts an oily film.
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