Thursday, November 17, 2022

A Small Machine Conjuring


Some everyday materials have memories, and now they can be erased
Oct 2022, phys.org

I know they're just talking about a piece of paper but still this whole thing just creeps me out, and from both sides:

"We can find out the history of a material by doing some tests or erase a material's memory and program a new one to prepare it for consumer or industrial use."

via Penn State: Nathan C. Keim et al, Mechanical annealing and memories in a disordered solid, Science Advances (2022). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo1614

Image credit: AI Art - A Small Machine Conjuring - 2022

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