WPI-SKCM² Informational Media

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2026 Brochure

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2022 Brochure

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Untangling pressing global problems using knots

Nature advertisement feature overviewing the goals of the institute, which can be found here.

YouTube Playlist

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WPI Projects Selected in 2022

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WPI-SKCM² Research Highlights

HU Update March 2026

The key to why the universe exists may lie in an 1800s knot idea science once dismissed, Sticky beginnings: When life began to gel New “prebiotic gel-first” theory suggests life may have begun in sticky, surface-bound gels

HU Update September 2025

Nature inspires self-assembling helical polymer

HU Update January 2025

When is a hole not a hole? Researchers investigate the mystery of ‘latent pores’, Team uses achiral hard banana-shaped particles to assemble skyrmions and blue phases

HU Update Summer 2024

Knitting meets engineering, Quest for particle physics’ holy grail sparks discovery, Study reveals twisted origin of dead stars’ mysterious ‘heartbeats’

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