How small structures create stunning colours in nature In the 19th century, the piercingly blue morpho butterfly captivated the attention of people worldwide; its blue was so brilliant that one could not take their eyes away from it. Understandably, people wanted to extract the colour from the butterflies for human use, such as dyeing […]
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Crowdsourcing Conservation
How citizens are helping collect research data On the rare occasion that you break away from the tedium of overflowing inboxes to listlessly stare into space, something extraordinarily fascinating could catch your attention. It could be a stray dragonfly perched on the window ledge, or perhaps a tree with a huge canopy farther away. […]