New colour-generation mechanism discovered in 'rainbow' weevil


Researchers from Yale-NUS College and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland have discovered a novel colour-generation mechanism in nature, which if harnessed, has the potential to create cosmetics and paints with purer and more vivid hues, screen displays that project the same true image when viewed from any angle, and even reduce the signal loss in optical fibres.

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-colour...eevil.html#jCp