Glasses are ubiquitous in nature. Many common items such as ketchups, cosmetic products,
toothpaste, etc. and metallic glasses are examples of such glassy materials whose …

The rapid rise of viscosity or relaxation time upon supercooling is a universal hallmark of
glassy liquids. The temperature dependence of viscosity, however, is quite nonuniversal for …

Epithelial tissues act as barriers and, therefore, must repair themselves, respond to
environmental changes and grow without compromising their integrity. Consequently, they …

Here we introduce a variation of the trap model of supercooled liquids based on softness, a
particle-based variable identified by machine learning that quantifies the local structural …

In frictionless jammed packings, existing evidence suggests a picture in which localized
physics dominates in low spatial dimensions, d= 2, 3, but quickly loses relevance as d rises …

Active matter spans a wide range of time and length scales, from groups of cells and
synthetic self-propelled colloids to schools of fish and flocks of birds. The theoretical …

Data-driven approaches that infer the local structures responsible for plasticity in amorphous
materials have made substantial contributions to our understanding of the failure, flow, and …

Dorsal closure is a process that occurs during embryogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster.
During dorsal closure, the amnioserosa (AS), a one-cell thick epithelial tissue that fills the …

The term “fragility” describes the rate at which viscosity grows when a supercooled liquid
approaches its putative glass transition temperature. The field of glassy materials is actively …

A single solid tumor, composed of nearly identical cells, exhibits heterogeneous dynamics.
Dynamics of cells in the core is glass-like, whereas those in the periphery undergoes …