Mastodon
Pages

Solar-Powered Hornet Found; Turns Light Into Electricity In an animal kingdom first, insect’s ‘skin’ pigments convert sunlight i

0

news.nationalgeographic.com The oriental hornet has built-in “solar cells” that generate electricity from sunlight—a first in the animal kingdom, according to a new study. Scientists already knew that the hornet species, for unknown reasons, produced electricity inside its exoskeleton, according to study leader Marian Plotkin of Tel-Aviv University. Plotkin’s late mentor …