Computational modelling explains why blues and greens are brightest colours in nature

Researchers have shown why intense, pure red colours in nature are mainly produced by pigments, instead of the structural colour that produces bright blue and

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Tags: chemistry photonics colour

Metallic blue fruits use fat to produce colour and signal a treat for birds

Researchers have found that a common plant owes the dazzling blue colour of its fruit to fat in its cellular structure, the first time this type of colour

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Tags: plant-sciences fruit colour plant