"I Have Something You Can't Have, Ha Ha!"

All right, so these Brazilian beetles probably aren't flaunting their diamond based photonic crystals around intentionally, but watching the weevil L. augustus' iridescent green scales shimmer in the light would make any researcher envious.Especially when diamond structured photonic crystals are needed to create super fast optical computers, and creating the crystals synthetically hasn't worked (despite millions of dollars, complex instrumentation and numerous calculations).Optical computers us.. Read more »