Friday, April 3, 2009

Bird feathers produce color through structure similar to beer foam

This is just cool.

Prum and Dufresne discovered that the nanostructures that produce some birds' brightly colored plumage, such as the blue feathers of the male Eastern Bluebird, have a sponge-like structure. Credit: Photo: Ken Thomas

(Yale University) Some of the brightest colors in nature are created by tiny nanostructures with a structure similar to beer foam or a sponge, according to Yale University researchers.  …

Bird feathers produce color through structure similar to beer foam

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