In the 'butterfly effect,' an insect can flap its wings and create a microscopic change in initial conditions that leads to a hurricane halfway around the world. This chaos is seen everywhere, from ...

You've heard of robotic bees, but have you heard of robotic butterflies? Chinese researchers have published a study that focuses on their efforts to develop solar-powered wings that imitate the ...

A team of Chinese researchers has created tiny wings that are capable of flapping faster than butterfly wings — and which need only sunlight as a power source. According to the researchers, the design ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. A butterfly flaps its wings... a hurricane strikes miles away. According to Chaos Theory, a seemingly irrelevant ...

One of the challenges in designing micro air vehicles (MAVs) lies in the fact that if their battery is large enough to provide much range, it's too heavy for them to carry. Scientists have developed ...

NGC 2899 is a bipolar, butterfly-shaped planetary nebula recently captured by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, located between 3,000 and 6,500 light-years away. Its formation ...