The future of CD and DVD technology may be found in the eyes of peacock mantis shrimp, an international team of engineers recently reported.
The shrimp are one of the few animals in the world that are able to see circularly polarized light, the type of light used to make 3-D movies.
Scientists believe this ability is related to sexual signaling, Roy Caldwell, a biologist at the University of California at Berkeley, told me on Friday.