But exactly how these complex optical structures are assembled in a way that make them so bright and colorful remained ... making the butterfly wings appear brighter." These crystal dislocations ...

By varying the thickness of the membrane, the insect can reflect a rainbow from its wings. This phenomenon, known as “thin film interference”, also produces the colourful patterns of oil on water.

The authors of the new study rearranged colors on butterfly wings by deleting a single gene using a genome editing tool called CRISPR. The gene's absence had a dramatic effect in seven butterfly ...

In new research, scientists have discovered a genetic mechanism that is responsible for the colourful patterns on the wings of butterflies. Their findings were published in the Proceedings of the ...

The butterfly Pierella luna appears to change color because of the microstructure of its wings, which feature slightly curved scales. The butterfly Pierella luna appears to change color because of ...