Inside Science
/
Article

The Best Team Colors for Football Fields

FEB 02, 2012
Plant physiologists say team colors could determine which team is better...at least for grass football fields.
Inside Science Television
The Best Team Colors for Football Fields

Get Inside the Science

The Real Home Field Advantage - North Carolina State University
Casey Reynolds, North Carolina State University
TurfFiles - Turfgrass Information for North Carolina

Inside Science Buzzwords

Plant physiology - A scientific discipline concerned with plant functions including how they interact with the environment around them, their structure, as well as their chemical and biological makeup.

Photosynthesis - A chemical process by which plants use light from the sun to make sugars they can use for food energy in order to survive and grow.

Wavelength - A property of waves, including light waves, that describes the distance between successive peaks in the wave; in light, the wavelength determines color, with red being a shorter wavelength and blue being a longer wavelength, and green in between.

More Science News
/
Article
Urban conditions are uniquely tricky to navigate for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
/
Article
While sea butterflies don’t actually fly, understanding their lift-based swimming is important for underwater engineering.
/
Article
Optical control of cadmium arsenide offers terahertz tunability without a semiconductor layer.
/
Article
Using scattering and designer DNA nets, inert HIV can be caught and counted.
/
Article
Inside certain quantum systems, where randomness was thought to lurk, researchers—after a 40-year journey—have found order and unique wave patterns that stubbornly survive.
/
Article
Advances in computing have reignited interest in the approach.
/
Article
Inspired by a spider that holds an air bubble when it swims, the material could one day be used to design ocean sensors.
/
Article