Can a White Beetle Lead to Better Whites?

This story is interesting on several levels. First of all, you have a bright white beetle. But then you have a bit on the science of color, and how thicker materials are easier to make a brighter while, due to how white needs to reflect all light, and a beetle's shell is very thin.

And then you even have some strange math, as one of the reasons for the brightness of the beetle is due to some randomness of the makeup of the shell.

That is what I love about science... check out a simple white bug, and you find incredible things.