TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. — Treasure Island is looking to the future of 17 acres of waterfront property. Treasure Bay is a city-owned recreation complex that was hit hard by last year’s hurricanes. Vice ...

Inspired by the shape-shifting skin of octopuses, Penn State researchers developed a smart hydrogel that can change appearance, texture, and shape on command. The material is programmed using a ...

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 ...

Climate change shapes daily life in many visible ways, such as hotter summers or stronger storms. A less obvious effect appears on dinner tables. Food quality, food access, and nutrition now shift ...

Cancer cells that have broken away from a primary tumor can lurk in the body for years in a dormant state, evading immune defenders and biding their time until conditions are ripe for establishing a ...

Dormant lung cancer cells change their shape from spindle shaped (above) to round (below), which helps protect them from the body's immune defenders. Cancer cells that have broken away from a primary ...

With humanity’s sights set on returning to the moon and eventually setting foot on Mars, understanding spaceflight’s impact on human health is crucial. So a team of researchers has investigated some ...

A new study shows astronauts’ brains change shape and shift positions during stays in space. This research, which found that astronauts who were in space the longest showed the largest changes, could ...

Spaceflight takes a physical toll on astronauts, causing muscles to atrophy, bones to thin and bodily fluids to shift. According to a new study published in the journal PNAS, we can now add another ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronauts’ brains can change shape and shift positions during stays in space, according to a new study with implications for NASA ...