“We’re still piecing together how their mechanisms actually work ... (See a video Milinkovitch’s team made of a panther chameleon color change.) At age seven, Nick Henn got his first ...

“People generally assume that color change in chameleons is well understood, and I don’t think it is at all,” said Randall Morrison of McDaniel College in Maryland who was not involved with the study.

Chameleons are celebrated for their incredible ability to change color at will. Due to specialized cells in their skin, they can adapt their coloring to absorb heat, reflect sunlight, and ...

Scientific American reports that a recent study has outed the secret of how chameleons change the color of their skin. According to the report, chameleons have a layer of special cells that they ...

The lamp does what you think — hold any colored object up to the color sensor, and the chameleon will change colors to match. When no one is interacting with the lamp, it slowly runs through a ...

Chameleons are known for their ability to change color, and Labord's chameleons are no different. Their skin changes color by expanding and contracting special cells that contain nanocrystals ...

This causes the substance to change color and effectively become unseeable, the Independent reported. Think of it as the synthetic version of a chameleon or octopus’ natural cloaking mechanism.

Color change is a vital adaptive mechanism for many animals ... are much faster and more precise than those of animals like chameleons, which use hormones to control pigment cells, with the ...

The color changing is clearly something of a novelty, but I always appreciate it when phone makers inject an element of fun into their devices. This chameleon of a phone was co-designed with ...