Orit Peleg was recently awarded an NSF Career Grant for her project titled "Principles of Firefly Rhythmic Synchronization". From the NSF award abstract: Biological communication in large animal ...

Fireflies in a forest at night in Tennessee. Haoxiang Yang On an early June evening, physicist Raphael Sarfati breathed hard as he lumbered up a dense forest trail in Great Smoky Mountains National ...

You have the chance to view what is called "a special and unique phenomenon" in South Carolina. Every year, Congaree National Park hosts synchronous fireflies for ...

Earlier this month, Bernheim Forest and Arboretum in Kentucky documented some new firefly species. Researchers discovered three fireflies, two of which do not glow in the dark. Those two are called ...