According to Domingue, the light-scattering properties of the beetle's shell—which the team experimentally demonstrated using a white laser—made the nano-bioreplicated decoys more lifelike and, therefore, more attractive to males than the non-textured 3D-printed decoy. "We learned that not only...
47. She Was The First Femme Fatale One of Astor’s most famous roles was as Brigid O’Shaughnessy in the film The Maltese Falcon, where the starlet set the mold for the “femme fatale” stereotype. Astor played up the character’s nervousness and vulnerability, going so far as to hyperven...