Hogfish are the chameleons of the Atlantic Ocean, seamlessly changing their skin color depending on their environment. As if those morphing skills weren't impressive enough, these reef dwellers can ...

Octopuses have excellent camouflage. They trick predators by increasing or decreasing skin pigment to change to the same color as rocks. Inspired by octopuses, scientists have developed a synthetic ...

Hogfish can change their color in less than a second to blend in with their surroundings. Reinhard Dirscherl \ ullstein bild via Getty Images Like a chameleon, a hogfish can quickly change the color ...

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee met Friday to figure out ways to make pulse oximeters more accurate when doing readings on darker skin both in hospitals and at home, after research ...

When an 84-year-old man in Hong Kong went to hospital with an enlarged prostate, doctors were startled to see that his skin—and even the whites of his eyes—had turned silver-gray. A deeper ...

A TikTok creator has gone viral after claiming that eating three carrots a day has changed her natural skin tone, giving her a permanent glowing tan. But a nutritionist has told Newsweek that this isn ...

Lorian Schweikert was fishing in the Florida Keys when she hooked a hogfish—a type of tasty wrasse that’s known for its ability to change colors to match its coral reef environment. Schweikert dropped ...