Versatile building blocks make structures with surprising mechanical properties:
https://news.mit.edu/2020/versatile-building-blocks-1118, last accessed on 11.28.2020.
For more, see: Discretely assembled mechanical metamaterials
by Benjamin Jenett, Christopher Cameron, Filippos Tourlomousis, Alfonso Parra Rubio, Megan Ochalek, Neil Gershenfeld:
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/47/eabc9943, last accessed on 11.28.2020.
Image: Benjamin Jenett, CBA
For a short video: Discretely Assembled Mechanical Metamaterials: https://vimeo.com/480468085, last accessed on 11.28.2020.