What if you could *see* UV radiation before it has the potential to cause harm? A novel color-changing ‘living’ sensor could make this a reality, revealing exposure to damaging UV light and paving the ...

Japanese baseball equipment maker SSK reveals a color-changing bat series that uses new paint to change bat color based on sunlight. Over a year in research and development, the UV Series ...

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 ...

While there already are organic materials that change color in response to ultraviolet radiation exposure, those color-changes involve reorganization of the material's molecular structure, so it can ...

From smartphone apps to smart wearables, there are a variety of high-tech ways we can make sure we’re not being exposed to too many harmful ultraviolet wavelengths by being out in the sun. A new ...

While investigating hackmanite, a natural wonder material, researchers found that it, in addition to two other minerals, can change their color upon exposure to UV radiation repeatedly without wearing ...