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Jeremy Laird

MIT engineers create 'spaghetti' style metamaterial that could enable stretchy computer chips that are almost indestructible

MIT stretchy material.

When it comes to computing, flexibility usually means something to do with software compatibility, or just maybe a bendable screen. But a computer chip that can be extended to over three times its normal size? That's a real, er, stretch.

But it's exactly what a team of researchers at MIT are claiming their new "strong but stretchy" metamaterial could enable. A metamaterial, in case you're wondering, is a substance with multiple microscopic structures.

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