Colloidal crystals and glasses are tunable, iridescent, nonfading and nontoxic materials that can be used to develop structural colors. In a new report now published in Science Advances, Jong Bin Kim, and a team of researchers ...
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which is considered by many to be the most significant battle over abortion rights in decades. If the court upholds the Mississippi ...
Political science
Dec 10, 2021
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Most birds aren't as colorful as parrots or peacocks. But if you look beyond the feathers, bright colors on birds aren't hard to find: Think pink pigeon feet, red rooster combs and yellow pelican pouches.
Evolution
Dec 9, 2021
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Bumblebees waste no time enjoying the beauty of flowers—instead learning the bare minimum about where to land and find food, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Dec 8, 2021
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Micro-sized cameras have great potential to spot problems in the human body and enable sensing for super-small robots, but past approaches captured fuzzy, distorted images with limited fields of view.
Optics & Photonics
Nov 29, 2021
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Each fall, the leaves of almost half of North America's species of trees and shrubs turn red. But why is bewitching autumn foliage—to borrow from Mark Twain—so common in New England, but not in Europe?
Plants & Animals
Nov 12, 2021
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Glitter is the bane of every parent and primary school teacher. But beyond its general annoyance factor, it's also made of toxic and unsustainable materials, and contributes to plastic pollution.
Materials Science
Nov 11, 2021
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Ocean color is hard to observe, as water scatters sunlight and only visible light can be transmitted. As water deepens, the intensity of light transmitted through the water decreases. Traditional concentric system spectrometers, ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 9, 2021
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The Smart Polymer Materials group led by Prof. Chen Tao at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has developed a fluorescent organohydrogel which can serve ...
Materials Science
Nov 2, 2021
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The captured electrons typically absorb light in the visible spectrum, so that a transparent material becomes colored under the presence of such centers, for instance in diamond. "Color centers are often coming along with ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 1, 2021
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