Many living organisms have amazing control over their color, shape, and morphology for
camouflage, communication, and even reproduction in response to interplay between …

Conditions fish encounter during embryogenesis and early life history can leave lasting
effects not only on morphology, but also on growth rate, life‐history and behavioural traits …

Structural color can be produced by nanoperiodic dielectric structures using soft materials.
Chiral photonic elastomers (CPEs) produced from elastic chiral liquid crystal molecules can …

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many
of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second …

Many chameleons, and panther chameleons in particular, have the remarkable ability to
exhibit complex and rapid colour changes during social interactions such as male contests …

Biological skin systems can perceive various external stimuli through ion transduction.
Especially, the skin of some advanced organisms such as cephalopods can further promptly …

Conversational participants tend to immediately and unconsciously adapt to each other's
language styles: a speaker will even adjust the number of articles and other function words …

Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks, including finding food, avoiding
predators, attracting mates, and navigating through a complex and dynamic environment …

Physiological color change is important for background matching, thermoregulation as well
as signaling and is in vertebrates mediated by synchronous intracellular transport of …

Abstract Information security has evolved into an indispensable facet of modern society,
attracting enormous attention to diverse encryption techniques. Nevertheless, the pressing …