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Well, I never knew that!
artjak
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From my magazine 'The Week'; The secrets of the butterfly's wings are being unravelled by scientists at the Natural History Museum. For all their colour, butterfly wings are actually transparent; their hues are the result not of pigments, which absorb some light, but of reflective nano-structures which split light into different colours. Professor Andrew Parker has managed to grow wing material ...from a blue morpho butterfly and is hoping to upscale the process to use commercially on materials.
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Wish prof Parker would give me some wings,help me with this ere new knee
Alan in not very sunny Norfolk ( our bit that is ) Loads of seaweed on the beech today,
amazing..i dont even understand how they come up with researching this sort of stuff!
I suppose if your job is to peer through microscopes at 'things' you start to realise that there are applications in the wider world for the processes you have seen.