Make your best artworks stand out even more by adding iridescent pigments to your palette. Manufactured in powder form, typically out of finely ground mica powder, these pigments come in dozens of ...

From adaptive wearables to light-based signaling ideas, researchers are exploring what comes next The feathers of a ...

Gemstones like precious opal are beautiful to look at and deceivingly complex. As you look at such gems from different angles ...

Assigned color code GP5 and touch-up paint code WA-485B, Iridescent Pearl Tricoat is the only tricoat option available for the 2021 Chevy Trax. The new hue is one of two white paint colors, with ...

Engineers have found that under the right conditions, ordinary clear water droplets on a transparent surface can produce brilliant colors, without the addition of inks or dyes. Engineers at MIT and ...

Under the right conditions, ordinary clear water droplets on a transparent surface can produce brilliant colors, without the addition of inks or dyes. This iridescent effect is due to "structural ...

A new paper sheds light on the colorful world of animal communication, highlighting the challenges of studying accurately how iridescent colors work in nature. A new paper from the University of ...

A new paper from the University of Melbourne reveals how animals use beautiful but unreliable iridescent colours as communication signals. Special adaptations enable animals to control how these ...