Known for its shimmering blue wings, the Morpho butterfly owes its brilliance not to pigments but to microscopic structures that manipulate light. Now, researchers are harnessing those same ...

Why is General Electric Global Research so interested in the optical properties of butterfly wings? Rachel Won spoke ... Interestingly, the least colourful Morpho butterfly (Morpho sulkowskyi ...

A group of Osaka University researchers has developed a novel design for daylight window panes inspired by the structure of the Morpho butterfly wings that shine in a brilliant blue. The pane ...

Butterflies possess intricate wing structures that have inspired many technological innovations. For instance, the blue ...

This species is the popular blue morpho butterfly, Morpho peleides, which has a distinctive eye pattern on its outer wing and an iridescent blue-purple colour on its inner wing.