The animals' camouflaging capabilities have long inspired humans. The new material could one day help researchers improve ...

Researchers developed a color-changing material that alters both surface texture and appearance in seconds, inspired by ...

New octopus-inspired artificial skin mimics marine camouflage, enabling materials to transform in color and texture for ...

Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering ...

"These animals can physically change their bodies at close to the micron scale, and now we can dynamically control the ...

Octopus-inspired synthetic skin shifts color and texture via nanoscale patterning, pointing to displays, camouflage, and soft ...

Researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering potential ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do ...

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

The octopus is one of the ocean’s most fascinating animals. As a species, it possesses almost humanlike intelligence and traits rarely seen in other marine life. This octopus we found on @deepandscary ...

A material that can switch its appearance, cephalopod-style, could have future applications in robotics or display technology ...