Beetle bling: Researchers discover optical secrets of ‘metallic’ beetles

Monday, April 25, 2011 - 11:31 in Physics & Chemistry

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- Costa Rica was once regarded as the poorest of all the colonies of the Spanish Empire, sadly deficient in the silver and gold so coveted by conquistadors. As it turns out, all of the glittering gold and silver those explo...

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