{"id":241480,"date":"2026-07-24T04:25:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/chocolate-syrup-like-fluid-stores-multiple-interacting-memories"},"modified":"2026-07-24T04:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:25:02","slug":"chocolate-syrup-like-fluid-stores-multiple-interacting-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/chocolate-syrup-like-fluid-stores-multiple-interacting-memories","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate syrup-like fluid stores multiple interacting memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chocolate-syrup-like-fluid-stores-multiple-interacting-memories.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Animals and electronic devices aren\u2019t the only things with memory. Materials can retain memories of past deformations in their microscopic structure. A common example is a crease in a sheet of paper that has been folded then unfolded. Understanding this type of memory could benefit the design of materials that respond to changes in their environment in predictable ways.<\/p>\n<p>It can also be a source of ideas about the various types of memory studied by neuroscientists, including how short-term and long-term memories interact and influence each other. Now, researchers at Penn State have shown that two different types of material memory can coexist in a simple mixture of small particles suspended in a viscous liquid. Like long-and short-term memories, these material memories interact and compete.<\/p>\n<p>A paper describing the research was recently published and highlighted as an editors\u2019 suggestion in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/ckl2-lcpl\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animals and electronic devices aren\u2019t the only things with memory. Materials can retain memories of past deformations in their microscopic structure. A common example is a crease in a sheet of paper that has been folded then unfolded. Understanding this type of memory could benefit the design of materials that respond to changes in their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}