(Fox News) – If you thought the shape-shifting T-1000 robot in “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” was the stuff of nightmares, your nightmares may eventually become reality. Researchers have created a “Terminator-like” liquid metal that has the ability to stretch horizontally and vertically, as well as changing shapes, according to a new study. The research, published in Applied Materials & Interfaces, highlights how
liquid metals such as gallium, when mixed with nickel or iron, are actually able to be manipulated into different shapes, with the use of magnets. “Moreover, the vertically stretched MLMD (magnetic liquid metal droplet) can move horizontally with its half body in the solution and the other half in the air, which resembles the nature of an upright walking amphibian,” the researchers wrote in the study’s abstract. READ MORE
