Scientists discover the gene that codes for the gold coloration of Midas cichlids
All he touched turned to gold, according to the legend of King Midas from Greek mythology.
All he touched turned to gold, according to the legend of King Midas from Greek mythology.
Plants & Animals
Jan 13, 2022
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Scientists at the University of St Andrews have finally proved what every discerning fashionista knows—a person's complexion determines the color of clothing that suits them.
Social Sciences
Nov 17, 2021
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It's like a half-hearted dress up party: gobies don't camouflage completely when in groups, new research finds. Gobies change color to avoid detection by predators and do so faster and better when alone.
Plants & Animals
Oct 14, 2021
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Researchers have revealed that non-mammalian vertebrates might have a much more simple and effective way of deciphering between color and greyscale information than humans.
Plants & Animals
Oct 13, 2021
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Each human being uses, on average, 30 kg of plastic per year. Given that global life expectancy currently stands at approximately 70 years, each person will discard some two metric tons of plastic in his or her lifetime. ...
Materials Science
Sep 23, 2021
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Researchers at Linköping University have developed a method that may lead to new types of displays based on structural colors. The discovery opens the way to cheap and energy-efficient color displays and electronic labels. ...
Polymers
Jul 6, 2021
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Changes in the color and intensity of light pollution over the past few decades result in complex and unpredictable effects on animal vision, new research shows.
Ecology
Jul 6, 2021
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Wouldn't it be amazing if printed images can look three-dimensional (3D)? Unfortunately, conventional prints like photographs display two-dimensional (2D) images with a fixed appearance as they contain only intensity and ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 22, 2021
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As well as bright colors and subtle scents, flowers possess many invisible ways of attracting their pollinators, and a new study shows that bumblebees may use the humidity of a flower to tell them about the presence of nectar, ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2021
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Light that is sent into a photonic crystal can't go deeper than the so-called Bragg length. Deeper inside the crystal, light of a certain color range can simply not exist. Still, researchers of the University of Twente, the ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 28, 2021
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