We want to find out when an amorphous solid loses its stability and starts to slide like a pile of sand," says Fuchs. Based on the "Euclidean random matrix" (ERM) models, the researchers uncovered ...

Humans have been chemically modifying their world for far longer than you might think. Long before they had the slightest idea of what was happening chemically, they were turning clay into bricks, ...

Understanding the formation of amorphous solids, such as glasses, colloids and granular materials, is a challenge. As with many long-standing problems, its description is deceptively simple ...