To view the wings without damaging the delicate cells, the research team used speckle-correlation reflection phase microscopy. This type of microscopy works by shinning tiny points of light onto a ...

Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world. “What happens inside a chrysalis during metamorphosis?” asked Chris, writing from ...

One of the best-known poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins opens with a tribute to the phenomenon of iridescence. It’s represented by the colorful wings of kingfishers and dragonflies in Hopkins’ poem, but ...

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Engineers have continuously observed scales growing and assembling on a butterfly wing for the first time as the developing insect transforms inside its chrysalis. If you brush against the wings of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China Like their neighbors on the International Space Station, the taikonauts orbiting the planet in China’s Tiangong space ...