An image shared online in December 2024 allegedly showed a blue flower known as the "Begonia 'Moonlight Butterfly,'" whose leaves resemble butterflies. Another version of the image was posted on ...

That makes genetically engineering a blue flower tricky, since you can't just make a straightforward tweak and expect a garden full of unnatural hues. Scientists have just managed a breakthrough ...

Plenty of flowers are bluish, but it’s rare to find true blue in nature, says Naonobu Noda, a plant researcher at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization near Tsukuba, Japan, and ...

Distant nebulae star in one of the first images from the Rubin Observatory By McKenzie Prillaman June 23, 2025. News Life Nanoscale glitches let flowers make a blue blur that bees can see.

In the case of penstemons, with over 200 species to choose from, scientists Carolyn Wessinger and Mark Rausher have now shown that turning their flowers from blue to red involves knocking out the ...

Various blue flowers from our study. (Supplied)Why understanding blue flowers is important. About a third of our food depends on insect pollination. However, world populations of bees and other ...