Pieris rapae is a chromatic white butterfly – to us, anyway. In the UV spectrum they have a number of bright colors on their upper wings but we can’t see them. Pterins, pigments on their wing scales, vary a lot among them and can be impacted by diet. The brighter the male colors, the more [...]
read morePieris rapae is a chromatic white butterfly – to us, anyway. In the UV spectrum they have a number of bright colors on their upper wings but we can’t see them. Pterins, pigments on their wing scales, vary a lot among them and can be impacted by diet. The brighter the male colors, the more [...]
read moreThe LHC and its lower-energy counterpart in the US, Tevatron, have reported some important Higgs news this past week - details of six searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson at CERN and another in Chicago coming up.read...
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When you think of underwater photography, you probably think of the clear ocean waters of the Bahamas or other exotic tropical locales - certainly that's where I would go.Andrej Belic has other ideas. The whole site is done in Flash so it's impossible to navigate but this is a guy who does things the hard way and, like the pictures he takes, the effort is worth...
read moreSeriously, with the final return of the space shuttle in the news, how many of you were tempted to rent ape suits and go to the landing strip? A lot, I bet. NASA takes this stuff pretty seriously but you just know the astronauts would have lost it. Apes are always funny, unless you are [...]
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