Snippet: New mechanism for producing iridescence uses only water

New form of structural color in plain water droplets described

Read the story: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/scientists-luck-upon-new-way-make-rainbow

Read the research: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0946-4

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