Re:Four new DNA letters double life’s alphabet
by mattkrause on Sunday February 24, 2019 @05:03PM
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Yup! They're one of the few animals that can see circularly-polarized light, and the quarter-wave retarders in their eyes are really damn good.
As of a few years ago, they had a much wider wavelength range (400-700 nm) than the best man-made ones, which were only achromatic over ~100 nm.
https://www.ted.com/talks/sheila_patek_clocks_the_fastest_an...