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Colour scheme

Published on
July 24, 1998
Last updated
May 27, 2015

(Photograph) - Colour scheme: Peter Vukusic is part of a team at Exeter University that has been awarded Pounds 250,000 to investigate how the iridescent colours of butterflies' wings are formed and whether this process can be replicated by industry

Photograph by MIKE BENSON

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