POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A 20-year-old student at Florida Polytechnic University is a published scientist after he and his professor discovered peacock feathers can be used in laser physics.

Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light when dyed multiple times, according to a paper published in the journal ...

Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light when dyed multiple times, according to a paper published in the journal ...

On a microscopic scale, the extravagant eyespots of a peacock’s tail are built like optical machines — arrays of nanoscale rods and sheaths arranged with mathematical precision. But these intricate ...