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

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Imagine if you were a product designer who wanted to see what an actual physical object would look like in different colors or patterns. Well, MIT has designed a system that allows users to easily do ...

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 ...