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Sparkly Spiders and Photonic Fish

Sparkly Spiders and Photonic Fish

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(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.


Sharp Develops Five-Primary-Color LCD That Faithfully Reproduces Real Surface Colors

Electronics / Hardware

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Sharp Corporation has developed a five-primary-color display that faithfully reproduces the real surface colors that humans are capable of perceiving. A prototype of this display will be exhibited at the international symposium ...


Researchers investigate bird's 'carotenoid circle of life'

Researchers investigate bird's 'carotenoid circle of life'

Biology /

created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- “What you see is what you get” often is the mantra in the highly competitive life of birds, as they use brilliant displays of color to woo females for mating. Now researchers are finding that ...





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Social scientist creates computer model to determine human perception of hues

Social scientist creates computer model to determine human perception of hues

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Variations in how people perceive colors and how those same colors appear on TV, computers and other media have confounded broadcasters, Web designers and printers trying to reproduce lifelike hues.


Scientists find evidence of iridescence in 40 million-year-old feather fossil

Iridescence found in 40-million-year-old fossil bird feather

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Known for their wide variety of vibrant plumage, birds have evolved various chemical and physical mechanisms to produce these beautiful colors over millions of years. A team of paleontologists and ornithologists ...


iPod speakers: New offerings cute, compact, colorful

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

So many iPod speaker systems are available that finding the "best" could take a year. But you can sort speaker systems by style or function, so today's theme is cute and portable.


What scientists know about jewel beetle shimmer

What scientists know about jewel beetle shimmer

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 1

"Jewel beetles" are widely known for their glossy external skeletons that appear to change colors as the angle of view changes. Now they may be known for something else--providing a blueprint for materials ...


This could be an awesome year for fall foliage, expert says

This could be an awesome year for fall foliage, expert says

Biology / Other

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 20 years, Marc Abrams has studied how precipitation and temperature influence the timing and intensity of fall foliage colors in Pennsylvania. Every year during that span, there ...


HP Enables New Field of Flexible Electronics with Reflective Display Technology

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

HP today announced the launch of a new display technology for the personalization of consumer electronics products.


Nokia 6700 slide

New Nokia 6700 slide and Nokia 7230 unveiled

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Nokia today unveiled two new 3G slider phones, the Nokia 6700 slide and Nokia 7230, made for the design-conscious consumer and optimized for socializing and sharing with those closest to you.


Monitoring water through a snake's eyes

Monitoring water through a snake's eyes

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Although most Americans take the safety of their drinking water for granted, that ordinary tap water could become deadly within minutes, says Prof. Abraham Katzir of Tel Aviv University's School of Physics ...


Review: Rubik's TouchCube a little too touchy (AP)

Review: Rubik's TouchCube a little too touchy

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Thirty years ago Erno Rubik took a puzzle he had been tinkering with and turned it into the must-have brain twister toy, the Rubik's Cube.


Caught in the act: Butterfly mate preference shows how 1 species can become 2

Caught in the act: Scientists find butterflies splitting into two species

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Breaking up may actually not be hard to do, say scientists who've found a population of tropical butterflies that may be on its way to a split into two distinct species.



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