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He’s worried about what this land deformation could mean for the house on the lot, which he co-owns with his 80-year-old mother, Ann Bellis.

“There would be earthquakes galore and ground deformation. It wouldn’t be a single feature that had an explosion — there would be changes all over the place.”

CLCEs are flexible materials capable of structural color changes, while DEAs induce flexible deformation of dielectrics in response to electrical stimuli.

Now, a study by MIT scientists offers a new picture of glacier flow, based on microscopic deformation in the ice.

They used this relationship between micro- and macro-scale deformation to develop a new model for how glaciers flow.