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Ever seen The Blob? This is sort of like that – only the blob doing the absorbing is a ball of putty, infused with millions of micron-sized ferromagnetic particles. The putty is nothing special on its ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Everyone has gone crazy for magnetic putty in ...