At our current level of technology, more practical efforts focus on what is known as active camouflage. This is more akin to the way animals like squid and chameleons alter their appearance to ...

“In the current work, we report active camouflage as an intrinsic function of materials by proposing self-adaptive photochromism,” they write. The researchers conducted two tests to assess ...

There are five primary types of animal camouflage: color matching, decoration, active camouflage, mimesis and disruptive coloration. Each of them operates a little differently. Each of the ...