Solar-Powered Hornet Found; Turns Light Into Electricity
In an animal kingdom first, insect's "skin" pigments convert sunlight into energy.
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.
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