Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve ever wondered why some animals like butterflies, birds, and beetles shimmer in the light and change from one iridescent ...

Move over spider silk. Butterfly wings are the new “it” material of the animal kingdom, doubling up as ultra-sensitive heat sensors. Morpho butterfly wings are iridescent thanks to rows of tiny ...

Germany-based automation company Festo is making bionic ants. These are artificial ant units that move together under clear rules. They are showing off their cooperative behavior for doing tasks and ...

From the organizational strength of the ant colony, to the unseen communication in a swarm of butterflies, nature has always beaten man to it. But now researchers at Festo, a German industrial control ...

The key to building remarkably fine-tuned heat sensors, at low cost, according to scientists at General Electric's Global Research Center? Butterflies. The wings of the Morpho butterfly are covered ...