If you’re standing in the blazing sun struggling to read this on your cellphone, there may be some relief in sight. And you’ll have a moth to thank. The reason you have to find shade to read your phone is because of how the light reflects off the screen. The reflection reduces contrast, washing out images. And so “the lower the surface reflection, the better,” says Shin-Tson Wu, a professor of optics and photonics at
Moth eyes inspire glare-resistant coating for cellphone screens
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