it behaves sometimes like a liquid. sometimes like a solid. inspired by the cheap slime toy that children play with all over the world, his team created the substance in 2021. by mixing a simple with borax chl the magic happened when they added magnetic particles. you get a magnet slime bottom. when it comes close to a magnet it can move, change shape, and grasp objects. he s one of a growing number of scientists worldwide on a mission to better understand a new field in tech. soft robotics. they think of factories that are strong and fast. and precise. and in the field of soft robotics we think about how to you make them flexible and adaptable. sometimes looking to nature helps. like the agile but entirely boneless octopus.
ukraine. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says russia must be trying to humiliate the un with strikes on kyiv while the secretary general was visiting the capitol. ukraine emergency service says ten people were injured from missile that hit an apartment building. zelenskyy says the attack took place right after he finished meeting with un chief who was not harmed chl during the visit, he spoke of the urgent need for humanitarian corridors. to evacuate civilians in the besieged southern port city of mariupol. a ukrainian official in the city says the steel plant has been hit the heaviest. with the heaviest air strikes yet. hundreds of ukrainian soldiers are there along with hundred of civilians. ukraine says an operation is planned today to get civilians out. that hasn t provided other details. of course we ll stay on top of