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Hot Temperatures During Development Dull Blue Morpho Butterflies' Iridescent Wings New Technique Could Cut a 100-Hour Dental Crown Process to Under 30 Minutes Physicists Recreate Early-Universe Matter Using Smaller Atomic Nuclei Than Ever Before Astronomers Spot Three Active Black Holes in a Single Galaxy From the Early Universe South Korean Team Turns Coating 'Defects' Into a 5.5x Heat Transfer Boost Suitcase-Sized Satellite Would Hide Behind the Moon to Hear a Signal From Before the First Stars Lab-Grown Human Brain Cells Kept Alive for Record Seven Years Aged Like a Real Brain 11-Year UK Study Finds Abandoned Farmland Can Recover Into Orchid-Rich Meadow on Its Own

Hot Temperatures During Development Dull Blue Morpho Butterflies' Iridescent Wings New Technique Could Cut a 100-Hour Dental Crown Process to Under 30 Minutes Physicists Recreate Early-Universe Matter Using Smaller Atomic Nuclei Than Ever Before Astronomers Spot Three Active Black Holes in a Single Galaxy From the Early Universe South Korean Team Turns Coating 'Defects' Into a 5.5x Heat Transfer Boost Suitcase-Sized Satellite Would Hide Behind the Moon to Hear a Signal From Before the First Stars Lab-Grown Human Brain Cells Kept Alive for Record Seven Years Aged Like a Real Brain 11-Year UK Study Finds Abandoned Farmland Can Recover Into Orchid-Rich Meadow on Its Own

Hot Temperatures During Development Dull Blue Morpho Butterflies' Iridescent Wings

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) scientists found that morpho butterflies raised at hot temperatures projected under climate change emerge with duller wing color, a change detectable by birds and other…

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