butterfly
What do soap bubbles and butterflies have in common?
Edith Smith bred a bluer and shinier Common Buckeye at her butterfly farm in Florida, but it took University of California, Berkeley, graduate student Rachel…
At last, butterflies get a bigger, better evolutionary tree
The result is a treasure trove of scientific information stored in the form of millions of butterfly specimens, offering insights into community ecology, how…
The disappearance of common species
Together with their colleagues from the Senckenberg Nature Research Society, scientists of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) were able to show that…
Butterfly wing inspires photovoltaics: Light absorption can be enhanced by up to 200 percent
Sunlight reflected by solar cells is lost as unused energy. The wings of the butterfly Pachliopta aristolochiae are drilled by nanostructures (nanoholes) that…
New quantum phenomena in graphene superlattices
Quantum theory is the study of physics at the atomic and sub atomic level. It quantises energy and momentum and shows how objects are characterised as both…
X-rays reveal the photonic crystals in butterfly wings that create color
The results, published today in Science Advances, could help researchers mimic the effect for reflective coatings, fiber optics or other applications.