Image of the Day: Colorful Crystals
Thecla opisena butterfly wings get their unique luster from the crystalline structures in their scales (bottom right).
The Scientist Staff
Apr 26, 2017
BODO WILTS
(See B.D. Wilts et al., “Butterfly gyroid nanostructures as a time-frozen glimpse of intracellular membrane development,” Science Advances, doi:10.1126/sciadv.1603119, 2017.)
