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Blog / Deep Sea Invisibility

October 3, 2022 / Syed Masood /

Looking into the mechanism and the evolutionary benefits of deep-sea fish evolving ultra-black skin

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Blog / Plasmonics: squeezing light on the nanoscale

July 25, 2022 / Corban Murphey /

Plasmonic materials have made their way into mainstream applications of energy and medicine, but how exactly do they work?

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Blog / Got the blues? Why so few plants and animals are blue

March 30, 2022 / Corban Murphey /

Earth, with its vast oceans, is a blue planet to any observer. But why is it so uncommon to find blue plants and animals?

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Blog / Why are sunsets and rainbows so pretty?

October 7, 2020October 7, 2020 / Corban Murphey / 1

Light: we see it every day in buildings, outside, and on our screens. In fact, seeing things at all is just light going into your eyeballs. It’s often taken for…

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