The start of a new year often arrives with a quiet urge to reset, refresh, and show up a little differently. For many women, that shift begins with hair. Short natural afro hairstyles are stepping ...

Researchers at Penn State have developed a new fabrication method that allows a programmable “smart synthetic skin” to change its appearance, texture, and shape while also hiding or revealing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The team used their new printing method to encode a photo of the Mona Lisa onto their "smart skin" material (left). The photo, ...

To researchers’ surprise, deep learning vision algorithms often fail at classifying images because they mostly take cues from textures, not shapes. When you look at a photograph of a cat, chances are ...

A fingernail-size frog that can morph its skin texture from spiny to smooth in just minutes is the first shape-shifting amphibian ever found, according to a new report. The tiny "mutable rain frog" ...

For the study the researchers recruited 35 dogs who were trained to fetch a target object from a set of distractors. During testing, the dogs were presented with two choices: one matching the target ...

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Koket, Layered and Patterson Flynn are launching rug collections that pay homage to art with unusual shapes and colors. Find out more in this week’s Rug Report. Designed by Sophia Silva, artistic ...