Seema Tiwari-Woodruff

These transparent fish turn rainbow with white light. Now, we know why Repeated structures in the ghost catfish’s muscles separate white light that passes through their bodies into different wavelengths.

“The collective diffraction of light produces an array of colors. When the fish contracts and relaxes its muscles to swim, the sarcomeres slightly change in length, causing a shifting rainbow effect.”

#scicomm
#animalcoloration
#iridescence
#fish

www.sciencenews.org/article/tran...
🧪 🐟 🌈

25.11.2024 00:58 — 👍 620    🔁 121    💬 14    📌 9

This may be helpful for you new followers. You can block every single person on these lists. Just click on the subscribe button and it will give you the option to block every one on it. Here’s the first: bsky.app/profile/did:...

06.11.2024 21:49 — 👍 15585    🔁 11097    💬 1536    📌 1757

Just quit Twitter. I hope to find peace and truth here.

15.11.2024 05:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0