An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

In the heart of San Francisco, California, there’s a place where the curious and the quirky collide, where the past meets the ...

NEW ORLEANS — Mike Pereira made his way to a chair waiting for him inside a meeting room at the Convention Center here Thursday when he began to laugh at the crowd of media waiting for him.

In 1972, the US meteorologist Edward Lorenz asked a now-famous question: "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set ...

Inspired by butterfly wings, a team of German researchers have developed a new kind of robotic wings that can work using only magnetic fields. The new wings created by the Technical University of ...

Scientists discovered a moth that appears 3D despite having flat wings. Tiny structures on its wings reflect light that ...

Discover a microscopic world with one of the best microscopes for students and young scientists, without emptying your wallet — here are our top picks. The best microscopes for students should ...

In the dense rainforests of northern Australia and South-East Asia, a master of disguise flutters through the shadows. The ...

A CRITICALLY endangered butterfly, the Wolkberg Zulu, finally has a chance at survival after a conservation servitude was established in Limpopo to protect it. A century since its discovery in 1925, ...

"Traditionally, tissue biopsies are examined under a microscope. By digitising these slides, computers can now visualise them, enabling collaborative diagnoses among pathologists across locations ...

A vapour sensor based on an exact replica of the butterfly-scale design will most probably be unable to selectively quantify more than ten individual vapours from their mixture. A man-made ...

Video shared on social media shows the wing of a United Airlines aircraft on fire Sunday morning before more than 100 passengers were evacuated ahead of a planned flight from Houston. The apparent ...