In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm ...

Interestingly, the butterfly’s vibrant blue hue comes not from pigments but from the light-manipulating microscopic structures on its wings. The University of California San Diego research team ...

Even she couldn't handle how cute she looked. She did the sweetest little spin for herself, and much to her delight, her ...

During the Industrial Revolution, the light, speckled British peppered moth stood out ... leading him to explore the largely understudied role of miRNAs in shaping butterfly and moth wing coloration. ...

Think of it as the “butterfly effect” — the idea that something as small as the flapping of a butterfly’s wings can eventually lead to a major event such as a hurricane — in reverse. The new study, ...

A recent study showed butterfly populations decreased by 22 percent since 2000. Find out what flowers you can plant to ...

A simple lab mistake revealed the elusive quantum butterfly, confirming a 50-year-old theory in an unexpected graphene ...

Welcome to the kaleidoscopic world of the butterfly wing. How do butterflies ... in this case due to an exquisite blending of light and shadows. 'Natural selection has airbrushed the wing, rendering ...

Like the butterfly’s wings, “the display is taking the white ambient light around us, white light or sunlight, and through interference is going to send us back a color image,” Gally says.

With electron microscopes that magnify butterfly wings 50,000 times their original size, a hidden ‘topography’ emerges ...