I Consider:Researchers have found that tiny scales on the lantern surface of some fireflies form a corrugated pattern, some- what like overlapping shingles or tiles. The scales tilt up at one end by just 3 micrometers less than one twentieth the thickness of a human hair. Yet this tiny tilt lets the lantern shine. a lmost 50 percent more brightly than it would if the scales formed an even surface!
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 17:56:04 +0000