In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm ...

Why is General Electric Global Research so interested in the optical properties of butterfly wings? Rachel Won spoke ... To selectively sense more than one vapour, arrays of such customized ...

During graduate school, he saw an opportunity to merge his expertise in miRNA with his lifelong interest in butterflies, leading him to explore the largely understudied role of miRNAs in shaping ...

A common use of colour is as a defence against predators. Some species have developed large eyespots on their wings, tricking predators into thinking they have come face to face with a much larger ...