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M.I.T. Self-Assembly Lab researchers created a flat sheet that self-folds into a cube after being dipped in water for about 20 minutes.

Credit: M.I.T. Self-Assembly Lab

The biggest breakthroughs in how we make things lie not in the technology to manipulate materials but in the materials themselves.

From Scientific American
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