Scientists have concluded that peacocks’ tail feathers are capable of emitting narrow beams of light. A team highlighted that the colored tail feathers include tiny reflective structures that can ...

On a microscopic scale, the extravagant eyespots of a peacock’s tail are built like optical machines — arrays of nanoscale rods and sheaths arranged with mathematical precision. But these intricate ...

Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light when dyed multiple times, according to a paper published in the journal ...

That’s because the feather barbs in the eyespots are locked together with tiny hooks, much like those in flight feathers, ...

Rama Shankar Singh received funding from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada He is affiliated with Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University. McMaster University provides ...