Gemstones like precious opal are beautiful to look at and deceivingly complex. As you look at such gems from different angles ...

Imagine you’re in IKEA, looking for a plastic kitchen stool. You find one, but—darn—it’s turquoise, which just doesn’t match your home color scheme. No problem. You tell a salesperson, who pushes a ...

Although we've seen color-changing coatings before, they generally just switch between two solid colors. MIT scientists have developed a new system, however, that allows coated objects to take on ...

Do you love those shoes but can’t decide whether to buy the brown or the blue? In the near-ish future, you may not have to decide. A new technology from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ...