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Pollia condensata fruit

African fruit 鈥榖rightest鈥� thing in nature but does not use pigment to create its extraordinary colour

11 Sep 2012

Unique blue fruit鈥檚 colour does not fade even after a century

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Buttercup under chin

Why buttercups reflect yellow on chins

14 Dec 2011

Scientists discover why buttercups reflect yellow on chins 鈥� and it doesn鈥檛 have anything to do with whether you like butter. 探花直播new research sheds...

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Santas

Who colour-coded Christmas?

18 Oct 2011

探花直播conventional colours of Christmas 鈥� red and green 鈥� are not, as many might suppose, a legacy of the Victorians. Instead, they hark back to the...

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Birds of a feather display only a fraction of possible colours

23 Jun 2011

Research reveals plumages exhibit less than a third of possible colours birds can see.

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