The South African photographer began shooting peacock feathers three years ago after seeing a photo of one and wondering what such remarkable feathers might look like through a microscope.

The Broad Spectrum Confocal Microscope has several applications ... This is similar to the way a peacock’s feather scatters light. This is projected on to the target object which allows us ...

was the first person to examine peacock features under a microscope, noting the ordered structure of their barbs, and how they served as tiny hooks to let the individual feathers function as a whole.

By doing a microscopic study of the feathers ... The physical properties of the peacock's feather allow them to strum at a rhythm that matches their feather train's natural frequency.

It is a technology built into the very fabric of butterfly wings and peacock feathers - now scientists ... produced by the way the light hits the microscopic structure of a material - like the ...

Peacock tail feathers, for instance, are pigmented brown but their microscopic structure causes them to also reflect blue, turquoise, and green light. Structural coloration often creates the ...

Male peacock spiders know how to put on a show for potential mates, with dancing and a bit of optical trickery. Microscopic bumps ... to create ultrablack feathers (SN: 2/3/18, p.