A tsetse fly (Glossina sp) in the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania.
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New research on what attracts blood-feasting flies to blue objects could help minimise the impacts of those insects on people and animals.
Light from our setting sun reflecting off storm clouds can give off a some vivid shades of pinks, purples and oranges.
Jake Clark
It’s all to do with the light from the Sun and a blanket of air wrapped around Earth called the ‘atmosphere’.
Our veins only appear blue through the skin, they’re actually red.
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Blood is red, but our veins are blue. Or are they?