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 ...

What human mathematicians must learn how to model is just a way of life for fireflies in Pennsylvania’s forests. A new study from researchers at the University of Pittsburgh shows that math borrowed ...

RICHLAND COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – Congaree National Park will glow once again with one of nature’s bright displays this spring ...

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 ...

Add this to your summer to-do list: next time you see the fireflies outside, try paying attention to the rhythm of the flashes. In some species, swarms will flash in sync. The fireflies' light show, ...

In the middle of the old-growth forests of Congaree National Park in South Carolina, fireflies put on an other-worldly display every May. Thousands of male insects belonging to the species Photuris ...

Mathematicians took a cue from nature by studying how fireflies synchronize their flashes. Researchers used a complex elliptic burster model of brain cell behavior to understand the synchronization.