Imagine a bicycle tyre that self-adjusts from being firm while you ride on the road to soft and squishy if you veer onto sand. This is just one potential application for a new material that can switch from being hard ...

The cars affected are Prius and Lexus models from 2008 to 2012. The recall includes some 495,000 cars sold in North America, 743,000 in Japan as well as vehicles in Europe, China and other regions, BBC reports. Toyota and other ...