To control color, the team sandwiched the polymer between two gold films. Light bounces off these films and interferes in ...

Octopus and cuttlefish are masters of disguise. Many species can rapidly change both the color and the texture of their skin ...

We hear a lot about uneven skin tones, thanks to hard-to-conceal dark spots and melasma, but don't forget about its equally annoying counterpart: uneven skin texture. These are the bumps, flakes, pits ...

As NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit began collecting images for a 360-degree panorama of new terrain, the rover captured this view of a dark boulder with an interesting surface texture. The ...