Not seen on the Delmarva peninsula in 27 years, the endangered Hessel’s Hairstreak butterfly reveals itself in a Delaware swamp. For the first time in 27 years, the rare Hessel's Hairstreak butterfly ...

This is the blue morpho butterfly, which has a cool alien-sounding name, but also has inspired a new biomimetic fabric that refracts light like the butterfly’s wings. It’s just one of the eco-friendly ...

From adaptive wearables to light-based signaling ideas, researchers are exploring what comes next The feathers of a ...

In a forested region of Angola where a cliff separates the landscape, a new species of butterfly was discovered. Getty Images/iStockphoto In the forests of northwestern Angola, the canopy of trees ...

Up to 20 layers of transparent scales on butterfly wings scatter white light to produce brilliant blue structural color. Alison Sweeney, Duke University, and collaborators at the Smithsonian Tropical ...

Gemstones like precious opal are beautiful to look at and deceivingly complex. As you look at such gems from different angles ...