The monarch butterfly is a beautiful and colorful creature, but it takes a while to reach that part of its adult life.

Butterfly wings inspire new imaging technique for cancer diagnosis Using the nanostructures found on butterfly wings, ... without the need for chemical staining or expensive imaging equipment. ...

Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a sprinkling of white spots around the black edges. Those white spots may actually help monarchs ...

Using the microscopic structures found on the wings of the Morpho butterfly, researchers have developed a simple and inexpensive way to analyze cancer biopsy samples that could make cancer ...

Known for its shimmering blue wings, the Morpho butterfly owes its brilliance not to pigments but to microscopic structures that manipulate light. Now, researchers are harnessing those same structures ...