UTD professors one step closer to making artificial muscles

Hey, eat your heart out MIT. We’ve got our own smarty-pants scientist right here in our neighborhood.
A team of nanotechnologists at UTD worked with Brazilian researchers and discovered that when you stretch sheets of carbon nanotubes, it can trigger some bizarre mechanical properties.
Umm, right. So what’s that mean?
Well, if you really want the full explanation (scientific jargon and all) you can read more about it on the Pegasus News blog—or you can read the team’s detailed findings in the Journal of Science.
Or if you’re right-brained like me, you just want to know why these findings matter. This could help scientists make artificial muscles. Muscles that contract and move just like real muscles—but are about a hundred times stronger.
Just think, some of your neighbors might have a hand in creating a generation of Terminator-esque super buff cyborgs. And who says science isn’t cool?