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

Known for its shimmering blue wings, the Morpho butterfly owes its brilliance not ... Our work shows that nature has given us ...

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 ...

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SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered a unique way to analyze the extent of fibrosis using butterfly wings. The team ...

Morpho butterflies carry structures that can manipulate light in their wings. The researchers discovered that when a biopsy was placed on a Morpho butterfly wing and viewed with a standard microscope, ...

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 ...

It's hard for small butterflies with light-colored wings to regulate body temperature as Earth gets warmer, a new study found. A Juditha caucana butterfly is shown in Panama on the finger of lead ...

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 ...

Like an expanding balloon, the wings grow over time without changing their original shape. Yet new research shows that something is amiss in the Butterfly Nebula.

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. ...