News All News Newsletter Recent Grants Back to main menu Overview Grant Awards 2022-23 Accolades Publications Media Information Social Media Information Science Communication Resources for Scientists Obituaries Home All News What Gives The Morpho Butterfly Its Magnificent Blue? | Nature | PBS Blue Morpho butterfly. Credit Rlevse via Wikimedia Commons By Diana Kenney March 18, 2018 Share Articles Categories Media Mentions This Nature/PBS video features Nipam Patel's research on the nanoscale wing structures that give the morpho butterfly its brilliant blue. Patel, of University of California, Berkeley, is a faculty member in and former co-director of the Embryology Course. Share Articles