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This Fruit Is The Shiniest Living Thing In The Whole World

Congratulations, berries. We are all very proud of you.

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Ulrich Steiner, one of the scientists whose study of the berry, Pointillist structural color in Pollia fruit, was just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, told NPR he wasn’t even impressed by the berry at first, because it was “smaller than a blueberry” and how could anything good ever come out of something smaller than a blueberry? (Aside from an adorable tiny blueberry.)