In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm ...

A simple lab mistake revealed the elusive quantum butterfly, confirming a 50-year-old theory in an unexpected graphene ...

Why is General Electric Global Research so interested in the optical properties of butterfly wings? Rachel Won spoke ... scales is a result of the combined effects of diffraction and interference ...

Welcome to the kaleidoscopic world of the butterfly ... more incredible than the Indian leaf is an oriental moth, Uropyia meticulodina. It looks just like a rolled-up, dry leaf, but the wings are ...