Perhaps the science textbooks of the future will add a new step to the scientific method: "consult with AI." That's because scientists are using artificial intelligence to help them design brand-new materials that solve human challenges like never before. A team of materials scientists at TU Delft University in the Netherlands have created a new material that is super-compressible, yet durable.. In materials science, researchers are looking for novel geometries in design that are able to be created in real life, while also ensuring those solutions aren't just random. They have to be interesting in some way. "If you change the geometry of the material, it will not do what you want it to do. It breaks or it bends in a different way, it doesn't do what you want," Miguel Bessa, one of the authors of the new paper published in Advanced Materials, told Popular Mechanics.