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 ...

Butterfly and moth wings can be stunningly beautiful ... Most Sphingidae caterpillars have a small horn at their posterior end. Some species, during one of the last instars (the periods between each ...

Some species have developed large eyespots on their wings, tricking predators into thinking they have come face to face with a much larger creature. The owl butterfly is one example of this. Its ...

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 ...