{
  "id": 1274726,
  "title": "Active particles could make stable glasses stronger without catastrophic brittle failure",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/16/active-particles-could-make-stable-glasses-stronger-without",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-16T13:00:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-particles-stable-glasses-stronger-catastrophic.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The strongest glasses have an Achilles' heel that causes them to fail catastrophically when pushed past their limit. They do not bend or stretch, as all damage concentrates into a single plane and the material fails in an instant. This brittleness has long capped the usefulness of high-stability amorphous solids, from bulk metallic glasses to engineered metamaterials.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}