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This article strengthens my belief that butterflies are some of the most metal animals out there. Flying around at 25mph? Metal. Drinking tears? Metal. Electrostatically charged?! Metal.

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You can add to the list the colors of their wings, rendered by a complex nanostructure that is triply periodic [1].

[1]: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/butterfly.html

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