The green hairstreak butterfly (Callophrys rubi) gets its blue-green hue from complex nanoscale structures on its wings. The structures, called gyroids, are repeating patterns of spiral-shaped ...

Butterfly-lovers at Green Down Butterfly enthusiasts were given a rare opportunity to see one of Somerset's best-loved endangered species on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 June, 2005.

Butterfly wings may rank among the most delicate structures in nature, but they have given researchers powerful inspiration for new technology that doubles production of hydrogen gas — a green ...

Green Tech. Solar Panels Might ... These nanostructures absorb and reflect different colors of light at different angles, so the butterfly appears to 'shimmer' and change colors in the air.

The colours are produced because the scales on the butterfly’s wing behave as diffraction gratings, albeit with a twist. In a normal diffraction grating, the light with the longest wavelengths ...

Suzanne Lownsbury was surprised to photograph a monarch butterfly with a green smiley face sticker on its wing in Sandbridge a week ago. Lownsbury wondered how and why the butterfly was tagged with… ...

Under a canopy of twinkling city lights and illuminated butterfly wings, A-listers meandered to Discovery Green for the ...

Pilsen couple transformed home into butterfly sanctuary, want to pay green efforts forward 02:25. CHICAGO (CBS)-- A Pilsen couple are using their green thumbs for a cause. As CBS 2's Marybel ...

Study Sheds Light on Butterfly Migration Every year, monarch butterflies travel more than a thousand miles from Canada to Mexico. New research might help explain how the monarch's tiny brain ...

TOKYO: Scientists have found that a butterfly species from Australasia has 15 classes of light-detecting cells or photoreceptors, enabling them to see fast moving objects better than the human eye ...

Scientists have genetically engineered a butterfly for the first time, putting a jellyfish protein into a tropical African species so that its eyes fluoresce green.

Butterfly wings may rank among the most delicate structures in nature, but they have given researchers powerful inspiration for new technology that doubles production of hydrogen gas — a green ...