(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with California Institute of Technology and the Karlsruh Institute of Technology has improved the efficiency of thin film solar cells by mimicking the architecture of ...

As technology moves forward, many scientists are looking to nature to find inspiration for the development of advanced materials that can have a variety of practical applications. Among the structures ...

A new study confirms the British swallowtail butterfly is genetically unique. This native species possesses significantly ...

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Researchers at the University of California San Diego have found an unusual ally in the quest to make cancer diagnosis faster, more accurate and more accessible worldwide: the Morpho butterfly. Known ...

One hit in the wrong place and boom! – total collapse and disaster. To counter that shatterability, the researchers applied the uniform stress distribution of butterfly wings to architecture, using a ...