https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02865-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02865-1 (paywalled) and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02865-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02865-1 (paywalled) and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384256048_Shape-Recovering_Liquids/fulltext/66f162edc0570c21feb6c275/Shape-Recovering-Liquids.pdf?origin=scientificContributions https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384256048_Shape-Rec... I don't know how the popular mechanics author came to the conclusion they did; the paper says nothing about breaking any laws of thermodynamics.