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Peep Another Sneak Peek at Blue Beetle in Full Anime-Inspired Action

New casting for Captain America: New World Order, Deadpool in production, and teasers for Superman & Lois and Gotham Knights .

io9 Gordon Jackson May 25

Indiana Jones Has No Time for Old Jokes in Dial of Destiny

Meanwhile, Scott Lang gets ready to meet his vegetables in even more new Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania clips.

io9 Gordon Jackson Feb 9

Researchers Stalked Death’s-Head Hawkmoths in a Plane to Learn Their Navigation Secrets

These creepy moths could be as good at navigating as birds. In a groundbreaking study, scientists recorded them flying in a straight path for over 50 miles.

Biology Lauren Leffer Aug 11

City Dwellers Could Be Key to Saving Monarch Butterflies From Extinction

Since 2014, conservationists have been trying to secure protections for the monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act. The butterfly—whose signature black-and-white speckled orange wings are impossible to miss—has seen its numbers drop by 80 percent in North America over the last 20 years. New research, however, paints a promising future for the species in…

Conservation Yessenia Funes Jun 21

Watching a Butterfly Hatch Looks Beautifully Alien

One of the wildest things that happens in nature is caterpillars go to sleep one day and then transform into a damn butterfly after a month. I thought that as a kid, and I still think it now. Like, that’s the closest thing we’ve got to actual sorcery on Earth. But it’s just an egg…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 14

Video: The metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a monarch butterfly

Here’s the life cycle of a monarch butterfly. From the wild green creepy critter crawler caterpillar to the unassuming cocoon to the beautifully complex and intricate butterfly itself. We get to see the entire process and it’s like a magic trick, enter one way and exit completely different. Nature is always the best magician. SPLOID…

Sploid Casey Chan Aug 28

Butterfly-Collecting Was The Perfect Cover For This Historic Spy

We love real-life spy stories. The gadgetry! The clandestine meetings! The coded messages! But thus far, most spy stories have glossed over the role of butterfly-collecting. That was a terrible mistake. Commenter spagornasm shared this real history of a spy working in the early 1900s — and the unexpectedly important role that butterfly-collecting and birdwatching…

io9 Ria Misra Apr 30

Butterfleye Keeps an Eye on Your House For Safety and For Fun

Gone are the days of nanny cams embedded in teddy bears or CCTV arrays mounted outside your front door. The new home camera Butterfleye represents a new surveillance device that’s somewhere in-between—a small, unintrusive device designed for monitoring your home’s security, but with smart activity-sensing features which could also feasibly capture your baby’s first steps.…

Tech News Alissa Walker May 23

Extremely rare image shows bee and butterfly drinking crocodile tears

This image is so weird and rare that you may think it’s a bizarre photoshop. It’s not—it was taken by aquatic ecologist Carlos de la Rosa,who says it’s a extremely rare and unique photo. The butterfly and the bee drank the tears from a Caiman crocodilus for 15 minutes. There’s video too: According to De…

Sploid Jesus Diaz May 5

Extraordinary eggs and caterpillars are as beautiful as the butterflies

These microscopic photos of butterfly eggs by National Geographic, Prüftechnik Uri, and the University Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland are truly fascinating. I find them even more beautiful than the adult insects. Same goes for their incredible caterpillars. Above, a Dryas iulia butterfly egg. Below, the caterpillar and the adult butterfly. This is an Adonis blue…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Apr 22

Butterfly Wings Look Completely Crazy Under an Electron Microscope

Destin over at SmarterEveryDay wanted to take an up-close look at the nanostructure of a butterfly’s wing, so he took a few samples to be looked at under a scanning electron microscope. The results are fascinatingly beautiful. Destin and Dr. Robert Simmons at Georgia State University revealed the tiniest details of a butterfly’s wing using…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Nov 30

The convergent evolution of butterflies is controlled by a single gene

Certain butterfly species are poisonous, providing a deadly defense against predators. Over time, different butterfly species have evolved the same color patterns, basically telling predators to avoid all butterflies of that appearance. This is the mystery of convergent evolution. These butterfly species are only distantly related, and once in their evolutionary history they didn’t look…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 22

I Don’t Care How They Sound, I Want a Pair of Butterfly Speakers

Do you see it? Of course you do! The wooden wings and slim black body of the Monarch Loudspeaker makes the whole get up look like a butterfly. With that kind of styling, I’m not even sure sound quality matters. Luckily, it’s supposed to sound great. The Monarch Loudspeaker has two 15-inch woofers mounted onto…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 14

A Chandelier With Hundreds of Mini Perched Solar Cell Butterflies

Not only is Jeroen Verhoeven’s Virtue of Blue lamp functional, it’s also incredibly gorgeous—500 tiny butterflies were cut from photovoltaic cells, soaking up the sunshine to light up the lamp. I only hope it’s not a lamp/bug-zapper. [Mocoloco]

Tech News Kat Hannaford May 24

Feed This Butterfly A Few AAA Batteries And It’ll Live Forever

This electronic butterfly will flutter around its jar forever to add some cheer to your desk as long as you feed it some AAA batteries occasionally. Basically, unlike a real captive butterfly, it’ll never let you down or desert you. I can’t guarantee that it’ll never make you cry though. [ThinkGeek]

Tech News Rosa Golijan Dec 8

Butterfly Eggs Don’t Look Like They’re From This World

Butterflies sorta creep me out. First, they start out as another bug and then they cocoon themselves. Who does that? And just take a look at this butterfly egg, it’s borderline alien looking. National Geographic has a whole slew of pictures of insect eggs. The pictures were taken with a scanning electron microscope, which uses…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 29

Darpa’s Butterfly-Inspired Sensors Light Up at Chemical Threats

The Pentagon’s got a new game plan to detect deadly chemical threats: tiny, iridescent sensors that are designed to mimic one of nature’s most colorful creatures: Butterflies. It’s the latest in a series of Darpa-funded efforts to use insects to spot weapons. Last year, the agency tapped researchers at Agiltron Corporation to implant larvae with…

Tech News Katie Drummond - Wired Aug 12

The Robotic Butterfly That Flies Like The Real Thing

The ChouChou Robotic Butterfly is just like a real butterfly, except it can live forever. Or at least until its battery runs out. You won’t even know the difference, just watch it fly. [Japan Trends]

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 17

Money Of The Future To Be As Pretty As Butterfly Wings

Even though the future obviously revolves around credit cards and online transfers, a team of British scientists have developed a way for banknotes to be harder to forge—using iridescent butterfly wings as inspiration. The unique information encrypted in each note’s optical signatures currently go some way to protecting currency forgery, but it’s obviously not enough.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford May 31

This tiny robotic butterfly is helping to reinvent the airplane

Japanese researchers have built an artificial butterfly that mimics the unusual flight patterns of the swallowtail butterfly. Their tiny model is called an “ornithopter” – and we’ve got the video of the little guy in flight. What makes the swallowtail unusual relative to other butterflies is its very large wings, which dwarf its comparatively tiny…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 20

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Peep Another Sneak Peek at Blue Beetle in Full Anime-Inspired Action

Indiana Jones Has No Time for Old Jokes in Dial of Destiny

Researchers Stalked Death’s-Head Hawkmoths in a Plane to Learn Their Navigation Secrets

City Dwellers Could Be Key to Saving Monarch Butterflies From Extinction

Watching a Butterfly Hatch Looks Beautifully Alien

Video: The metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a monarch butterfly

Butterfly-Collecting Was The Perfect Cover For This Historic Spy

Butterfleye Keeps an Eye on Your House For Safety and For Fun

Extremely rare image shows bee and butterfly drinking crocodile tears

Extraordinary eggs and caterpillars are as beautiful as the butterflies

Butterfly Wings Look Completely Crazy Under an Electron Microscope

The convergent evolution of butterflies is controlled by a single gene

I Don’t Care How They Sound, I Want a Pair of Butterfly Speakers

A Chandelier With Hundreds of Mini Perched Solar Cell Butterflies

Feed This Butterfly A Few AAA Batteries And It’ll Live Forever

Butterfly Eggs Don’t Look Like They’re From This World

Darpa’s Butterfly-Inspired Sensors Light Up at Chemical Threats

The Robotic Butterfly That Flies Like The Real Thing

Money Of The Future To Be As Pretty As Butterfly Wings

This tiny robotic butterfly is helping to reinvent the airplane

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