Invariants and elasticity tensors play a pivotal role in the mathematical and physical description of material behaviour. By characterising properties that remain unchanged under coordinate ...

Picture a suspension bridge. The river erodes the pillars, semi-trucks rumble across, blasts of gale-force wind whip between the cables. Through it all, the bridge must stand strong. If we can't see ...

Optical manipulation of matter by using the mechanical action of light is one of the vibrant subjects of micro and nanoscience. In 2018 a Nobel Prize of physics was awarded to Arthur Ashkin for the ...