Many ladybirds have attractive color patterns consisting of black and red. A research team focused on the multicolored Asian ladybird beetle Harmonia axyridis (also known as the harlequin ladybird), ...

WHEN gaseous substances slowly react with metals, and the volume of the solid resultants is greater than that of the metal at the temperature of reaction, a series of bright interference colours is ...

Roses are red, violets are blue. Everybody knows that, but what makes them so? Although plant breeders were aware of some of the genes involved, there was as yet no quantitative study of how pigment ...

Plasmonic resonances in metallic nanoparticles have been used since antiquity to colour glasses. The use of metal nanostructures for surface colourization has attracted considerable interest following ...

Trooping the Colour came and went after many months of preparations. Lieutenant Colonel James Shaw, Brigade Major to the Brigade of Guards and, by dint, head of the royal procession at Trooping the ...

Opinder K. Bhan, Dennis W. Brinkman, John B. Green, Gene P. Sturm Jr., Ronald D. Grigsby, Sheng-Yuh Tang and Bill Carley The cause of instability in marine diesel fuels was investigated by aging ...