Right now, students from around Greenville County are painting thousands of bright ceramic butterflies and learning about a very dark time in history. They are taking part in The Butterfly Project, ...

We did a project on structures for school. I chose butterflies for my inspiration because I found it interesting that they are made up of two structures. The first is the main structure of the ...

At first look, Tim Yanke’s butterfly painting feels as if the insects are coming to life. But being an innovator, he wanted to take things a step further. His painting “Peta louthias,” Greek for ...

I Am Become Death, Shatterer Of Worlds – a title echoing the words of scientist J Robert Oppenheimer after the detonation of the first atom bomb – is Hirst's largest painting using butterfly wings.

The vivid blue color of morpho butterflies doesn’t come from pigment but from tiny nanostructures on their wings that bend and reflect light. In a recent study, scientists designed a thin film with a ...

The endangered Palos Verdes blue butterfly, a symbol of conservation efforts in the South Bay, is the subject of a recently launched mural project created to help inspire youth and raise environmental ...

New research on butterfly genomes has revealed that the genetic components that produce different splotches of colour on wings can be mixed up between species by interbreeding to create new patterns, ...

A new material inspired by butterfly wings repels water and gleams with brilliant color. Like iridescent butterflies, the material uses tiny structures on its surface to achieve both qualities. A ...

The jeweler Pierre Dubail’s abstract work has been set onto a jeweled butterfly brooch. By Kathleen Beckett The term art jewelry is bandied about a lot, typically referring to jewelry of a sculptural ...