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Pollia condensata fruit

African fruit ‘brightest’ thing in nature but does not use pigment to create its extraordinary colour

11 Sep 2012

Unique blue fruit’s 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 – and it doesn’t have anything to do with whether you like butter. The new research sheds...

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Santas

Who colour-coded Christmas?

18 Oct 2011

The conventional colours of Christmas – red and green – 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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