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A new species of the butterfly genus Melitaea has been discovered in northern Israel, according to a paper published in the journal Comparative Cytogenetics. The Acentria’s fritillary (Melitaea acentria), female, Mt. Hermon (1,800 m), Israel, May 7, 2016. Image credit: V. Lukhtanov, doi: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v11i2.12370. Butterflies of the genus Melitaea are …

Photo: moncraftwallart on Instagram  While butterfly décor may have once been reserved for nurseries and little girls’ bedrooms, butterfly-emblazoned prints are set to make splash for the year ahead. In fact, butterfly motifs are slated to appear in homes everywhere in 2017, decorating everything from wallpaper to floors. As we prepare …

An international team of physicists, led by Prof. Chris Greene from Purdue University and Prof. Herwig Ott from the University of Kaiserslautern, has observed a butterfly Rydberg molecule, a weak pairing of two highly excitable atoms. Their work was published in the Oct. 5 issue of the journal Nature Communications …