The research relics have changed color, and now almost perfectly match the map's dark background color. I discovered this completely by accident, when I noticed some tooltip flash up as I was moving the mouse cursor around. Lo and behold, I had moused over a research relic that I did not even see was there. Now that I kinda know what to look for, I might be able to spot research relics, but they are very very very hard to see in their current color.
