Dirty Dancing in the Dark – facilitated by a nanostructure in a nocturnal moth?

In a project led by Jennifer Kelley (UWA) and Bodo Wilts (Fribourg), we’ve looked at a funky iridescence effect in a nocturnal moth, where a nanostructure facilitates an angle-dependent flicker that might (but we don’t know) be used by the insects for communication. What makes it somewhat special is the fact that the animal is nocturnal and that the effect happens on a part of the wing that is brown. Read more

Animation of Gyroid from flying puzzle pieces (by Stuart Ramsden)

Here’s a lovely animation created by Stuart Ramsden (ANU) around the time when we were trying to commercialise a toy puzzle version of the Gyroid (which we had dubbed ‘InfiniTiles’). While the puzzle never really got off the ground (at least not yet, although we do have both an injection moulded and a 3D printed prototype), the animation is amazing. Read more

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