It took centuries before someone finally noticed that the apparently dull, transparent wings of insects are filled with a multitude of colors, visible to the naked eye.At some point we all admired the wings of a beetle or of a colorful butterfly, but when people see a simple fly, they never think of the color of its ... |
4 January 2011
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Scientists have been trying to create a color e-reader for a long time, but the extreme demands that such a goal imposes of existing technology has meant that progress was slow. It was only recently that a group of experts managed to create a prototype of an electronic reader with a color display, but they admit to h... |
24 November 2009
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Bird species are widely known for their exquisite plumages, which are used to attract mates and show who is the boss within a group. For a long time, paleontologists and ornithologists wondered where this behavior originated, or exactly how old this “marketing mechanism” was. Recent analyses of fossilized... |
26 August 2009
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Good news for all the Chanel lovers out there: the sophisticated French brand has just launched its Summer 2008 makeup collection and it's really a convincing statement in favor of the old-fashioned but oh-so-true cliché "less is more". If you were wondering just how the exclusive Parisian brand defines the ultima... |
19 May 2008
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Some beetles have really bright colors, but in the case of some species, it is hard to say which is their color. The metallic woodboring beetle Chrysochroa vittata seems to be red if watched head-on, while from its side, the beetle gets a greenish hue, completely green at an 80-degree angle. Now, beetles' irides... |
5 February 2008
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