A material has been created that can "feel" and "think".

Scientists have proven that almost any material can be used to create integrated circuits capable of performing computational operations. In particular, specialists managed to mechanically process information and integrate it into a soft polymer. Usually this technology is used in silicon semiconductors, but it has a counterpart in nature - the properties of nervous tissue. Scientists from Pennsylvania decided to test it in soft materials like the brain. The polymer used reconfigurable circuitry so that external stimuli were captured and converted into electrical information that could then be processed to produce output signals. This approach can be used to detect radio frequencies and send light signals - for example, for autonomous search and rescue systems.