The Blue Morpho Butterfly is a beautiful brown — yes, brown —
butterfly. The microscopic scales on this rainforest butterfly
manipulate light, reflecting back an intense blue light that
makes them appear blue. Showing 8 posts tagged butterflies
Professor Brian Cox explains how Monarch Butterflies navigate by
“monitoring the position of the sun, and compensating for its
location in the sky using their internal timekeeping mechanism…
even when it’s cloudy.” This is an episode 5 preview of the
BBC’s Wonders of Life. Full screen this. …we human beings, who
have been trying to make things for only the blink of an
evolutionary eye, have a lot to learn from the long processes of
natural selection, whether it’s how to make a wing more
aerodynamic or a city more resilient or an electronic display
more vibrant… one of the most often-cited examples is Velcro,
which the Swiss engineer Georges de Mestral patented in 1955
after studying how burs stuck to his clothes… More than a decade
ago, an MIT grad named Mark Miles was