Butterfly wing material is somewhat like spider silk, in that they’re both animal-produced substances which scientists are very interested in copying. In the case of butterfly wings, it’s their ...

Criminal defense lawyer and artist Alex Heveri’s journey with glass insect sculptures started with designing a Blue Morpho butterfly sculpture for a friend’s memorial in Jan. 2020. Tucson Botanical ...

SEATTLE - Seattle's Pacific Science Center has some new additions to its tropical butterfly house, but they might be hard to spot. The Glasswinged Butterfly's wings lack the colorful scales that other ...

Glass for technologies like displays, tablets, laptops, smartphones, and solar cells need to pass light through, but could benefit from a surface that repels water, dirt, oil, and other liquids.

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have studied the wings of glasswing butterflies in an effort to determine what causes their low-reflective nature. It's believed ...