In this series of posts, I have challenged science students to explain complex topics in as simple a manner as possible (but not simpler). In this post, 18-year old biochemistry student Henry Laney ...
- Hey, smart people, Joe here.No, over here.You just got fooled by camouflage.You might think your eyes just got tricked,but what I actually just did was take advantageof how your brain has been ...
Some insects like mantids and grasshoppers have evolved in amazing ways in nature to blend into their environments to allow them both to hide from predators and capture their prey. From leaf insects ...
Machine generated contents note: 1. Animal camouflage: an introduction / Martin Stevens and Sami Merilaita; 2. Crypsis through background matching / Sami Merilaita and Martin Stevens; 3. The ...
Abbott H. Thayer’s painting of a peacock camouflaged in the foliage in “Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom” (1909) (image via Biodiversity Heritage Library) “Concealing-coloration in the ...
Fig.1.(a)The infrared emissivity curve of Rosaceae plants. (b) Atmospheric window transmission spectrum and ideal device spectrum. (c) Schematic diagram of the multispectral compatible infrared ...