Scallop Eyes Mirror Reflecting Telescopes, With Sophisticated Optical Properties (6 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Scallop Eyes Mirror Reflecting Telescopes, With Sophisticated Optical Properties (6 of 6)

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Single Pecten eye. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 1, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by B.A. Palmer at Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and colleagues was titled, "The image-forming mirror in the eye of the scallop."

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Benjamin Palmer

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