Many organisms leverage showy colors for attracting mates. Because color is a property of light (determined by its wavelength ...

For 30 years, scientists have known that cuttlefish, which are related to squids and octopuses, can see the orientation of ...

Every critter on this planet that relies on a sexual means of reproduction has its own way of luring in a mate – but ...

Flamboyant sexual ornaments serve as conspicuous visual signals optimized to the visual receptors and perception of potential ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Some beetles, such as Anomala albopilosa, strongly reflect left circularly polarized light (electromagnetic waves that oscillate leftward relative to the direction of light reception).

A modest increase in image quality was observed with polarized dermatoscopes vs ambient-light dermatoscopes for patient-performed teledermoscopy.

Forget LEDs, researchers from the University of Michigan have developed a new type of incandescent light bulb. The device is capable of emitting elliptically polarized light, described as "twisted" ...

Researchers at Kumamoto University have discovered that a purely inorganic crystal grown from water solution can emit ...

Scientists built a chiral metal-organic framework that boosts circularly polarized light, achieving record luminescence and offering a new design path for optical materials. (Nanowerk News) A research ...