What do fireflies, nanorods and Christmas lights have in common? Someday, consumers may be able to purchase multicolor strings of light that don't need electricity or batteries to glow. Scientists in Syracuse University's ...
Nanophysics
Jun 15, 2012
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For decades, scientists and the public alike have wondered why some fireflies exhibit synchronous flashing, in which large groups produce rhythmic, repeated flashes in unison – sometimes lighting up a whole forest at ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 11, 2011
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Every parent with young children knows that couples need to work together to accomplish the myriad tasks waiting both at work and at home. But it may come as a surprise that fireflies also juggle their commitments to find ...
Evolution
Apr 5, 2011
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Using high-speed cinematography, scientists at Cambridge University have discovered that individual algal cells can regulate the beating of their flagella in and out of synchrony in a manner that controls their swimming trajectories. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 23, 2009
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For many who grew up east of the Mississippi River, yellow twinkling lights punctuate magical childhood memories. New England natives call them fireflies, but they're known as lightning bugs from the Midwest to the South. ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 15, 2024
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Owen Martin steps carefully through the knee-high grass growing up around a long-abandoned railroad track near Sawhill Ponds in Boulder, Colorado. It's almost pitch black out. The sun set 45 minutes ago, and the only light ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 12, 2024
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They glow like fading stars and have made memories of shimmering summertime backyards for generations.
Plants & Animals
Jul 8, 2024
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The leading hypothesis for the origin of firefly lights has been overturned by a genomic analysis. It had been posited that the bright lights emitted by many species in the Lampyridae family of beetles—better known as fireflies—first ...
Evolution
Jun 25, 2024
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The gigantic galaxies we see in the universe today, including our own Milky Way galaxy, started out far smaller. Mergers throughout the universe's 13.7 billion years gradually assembled today's massive galaxies. But they ...
Astronomy
Feb 21, 2024
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A new aerospace company reached orbit with its second rocket launch and deployed multiple small satellites on Saturday.
Space Exploration
Oct 2, 2022
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