Her green dress, shimmering with blue-green light, perfectly matched the mood. But it wasn’t a dye that lent that dress (still viewable at Smallhythe Place in Kent) its eerie, glittering glamor; it ...

The Miami tiger beetle — a diminutive, iridescent native of Florida — was first discovered and described in the 1930s. But after its discovery, it wasn't seen again for six decades, when it was found ...

Structural color is what makes the surface of soap bubbles iridescent and the body of a jewel beetle appear to glitter. While pigmented colors have the disadvantage of fading due to ultraviolet ...