“Color in Motion” seems an appropriate name for the live butterfly exhibit that opened this week at Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory. In a 30-by-30-foot tent in the conservatory’s Showcase ...

When it comes to moving in the water, few aquatic creatures can swim as gracefully and delicately as sea snails (Limacina helicina). In fact, scientists have even compared their movements to the ...

To improve the next generation of insect-size flying machines, Johns Hopkins engineers have been aiming high-speed video cameras at some of the prettiest bugs on the planet. By figuring out how ...

While butterfly stroke is one of the toughest swimming techniques to master, it appears one species of marine snail has cracked it. The tiny Limacina helicina has been found to flit through the icy ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In higher-order motion stimuli, the direction of object motion does not follow the direction of luminance change. Such stimuli could be ...