News tagged with coat color
Sparkly Spiders and Photonic Fish
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Israel and the UK have uncovered the details of how certain fish and spiders create their iridescent scales and silvery skins.
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Blind moles use beauty for function, not fancy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long wondered why a blind mole that lives in underground darkness has beautiful iridescent hair. After all, many animals or birds with magnificent features exhibit their colorful ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Biocompatible quantum dot images tumors in live animals
Quantum dots, small semiconductor nanoparticles that fluoresce brightly with sharply defined colors, have tremendous promise as biomedical imaging agents except for one problemmost are made from potentially hazardous ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 20, 2012 |
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'Greeley Haven' is winter workplace for Mars rover
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend the next several months at a site informally named "Greeley Haven." The name is a tribute to planetary geologist Ronald Greeley (1939-2011), ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 06, 2012 |
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Holographic 3-D looks tantalizingly closer in 2012
(PhysOrg.com) -- Applications like holographic TV have long been relegated as the next big thing in the distant future but a Leuven, Belgium-based R&D lab for nanoelectronics has come up with a process that ...
Researchers discover secret of weevil diamond-like coat
(PhysOrg.com) -- The diamond weevil (Entimus imperialis), also called sometimes as the Australian weevil, is a bug known throughout Australia as a pest, (another close relative resides in South America) as are ...
Researchers prepare cheap quantum dot solar paint
(PhysOrg.com) -- It typically takes a day or two to prepare quantum dot solar cells in the conventional multifilm architecture. Now a team of researchers is reducing the preparation time of quantum dot solar ...
Powerful mathematical model greatly improves predictions for species facing climate change
UCLA life scientists and colleagues have produced the most comprehensive mathematical model ever devised to track the health of populations exposed to environmental change.
Dec 03, 2011 |
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Researchers develop "streamlined" approach to shipboard inspection process
Based on funds from the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) under the Paint Center of Excellence Program, researchers in the Chemistry Division at the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a novel process ...
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Could Curiosity determine if Viking found life on Mars?
One of the most controversial and long-debated aspects of Mars exploration has been the results of the Viking landers life-detection experiments back in the 1970s. While the preliminary findings were ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2011 |
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In new quantum-dot LED design, researchers turn troublesome molecules to their advantage
By nestling quantum dots in an insulating egg-crate structure, researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated a robust new architecture for quantum-dot light-emitting devices ...
Nov 15, 2011 |
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