Fish Skin Doesn't Just Reflect Light – It Might Actually Sense It
Fish Skin Doesn't Just Reflect Light – It Might Actually Sense It Nature26 July 2026By Jess Cockerill Add ScienceAlert on Google A tropical fish reflecting light. (David Clode/Unsplash) A glittering school of silverside fish may remind you of a disco ball, a dazzling display made up of many tiny mirrors. This means it could still contain errors, omissions, and is not yet endorsed by the scientific community.It was uploaded to the preprint server bioRxiv. This article was fact-checked by Rachel Garner and edited by Peter Dockrill.
- ▪Fish Skin Doesn't Just Reflect Light – It Might Actually Sense It Nature26 July 2026By Jess Cockerill Add ScienceAlert on Google A tropical fish reflecting light. (David Clode/Unsplash) A glittering school of silverside fish may remind you
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Fish Skin Doesn't Just Reflect Light – It Might Actually Sense It Nature26 July 2026By Jess Cockerill Add ScienceAlert on Google A tropical fish reflecting light. (David Clode/Unsplash) A glittering school of silverside fish may remind you of a disco ball, a dazzling display made up of many tiny mirrors. But emerging research suggests the skin of these fish is capable of far more than just reflecting light. if ('undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag && 'undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag.cmd) { tmntag.cmd.push(function () { tmntag.adTag('Purch_Y_C_0_1', false); }); } Masakazu Iwasaka is an interdisciplinary engineer at Hiroshima University in Japan who has been researching the interplay of light across the bodies of fish for decades.
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