Almost 50 years ago, computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter predicted that a butterfly would spread its ... politely declined Scientific American’s request for comment about the new result ...

Painted ladies are the ultramarathoners of the butterfly world—even more so than monarchs. Scientists have long known about their globetrotting tendencies, but only recently have their exact ...

Luca Urlando is now the second-fastest American in history behind Michael Phelps in the 200m butterfly after crushing his personal best on Friday. Urlando, 17th in his Olympic debut in Paris, won the ...

Although the researchers – who collaborated across the country – saw a 22% decline in the total number of butterflies, they ...

Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back ...

In Maine, the North American Butterfly Club conducted 48 surveys at five locations. Maine doesn’t have a robust butterfly monitoring program that in other states provides a total butterfly count ...

Monarchs are on the move. Each spring, these delicate yet resilient butterflies embark on an awe-inspiring journey from their wintering grounds in Mexico, making their way northward across the ...

Two American Airlines planes clipped wings while on the runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday, though no one was injured in the airport’s latest alarming incident ...

A Painted Lady butterfly on a tridax daisy in Ivory Coast.Credit...Lucas Foglia Supported by Photographs by Lucas Foglia Text by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Ms. Nezhukumatathil writes poetry and essays ...

The 20th-century idea of an “American Dream” – where a sizable majority of people in the US could become or aspire to become middle-class, affluent or even extremely wealthy – is mostly ...