{"id":7565,"date":"2014-09-03T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-09-03T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T11:09:00","slug":"Beetles shine a light on Cambridge University scientists' to make brighter whites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/?p=7565","title":{"rendered":"Beetles shine a light on Cambridge University scientists&#8217; to make brighter whites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fox.ino.it\/AllegatiPubblici\/Nuovo\/Ricerca196.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Extra-bright paper, paints and computer screens could soon be on the way, thanks to a new discovery inspired by beetles.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Cambridge University\u2019s Cavendish Laboratory have found that the scales on the obscure Cyphochilus beetle are able to scatter light better than anything else in nature.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon has been likened to a painter who needs to whiten a wall with a very small quantity of paint.<\/p>\n<p>This efficiency is particularly important for insects that fly, as it makes them lighter and more manoeuvrable.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the explicative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/srep\/2014\/140815\/srep06075\/full\/srep06075.html\">Web page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News by Burresi Matteo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beetles shine a light on Cambridge University scientists&#8217; to make brighter whites<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}