Now, they’ve helped an international team of scientists get over 50 percent more light out of existing LED bulbs. The secret lies in the insects’ scales. More specifically, the secret lies in the ...

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 ...

Perhaps no single evolutionary novelty in the animal kingdom has fascinated scientists more than the lantern of the firefly. Yet to this day, nothing has been known about the genetic foundation for ...

Reading my two recently acquired books about fireflies, “Silent Sparks” by Sara Lewis and “Fireflies, Glowworms and Lightning Bugs” by Lynn Frierson Faust, I’ve learned many things about these ...

The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original. Researchers from Belgium, ...

I talked with my friend Richard Zack about how and why fireflies light up. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. Those glowing insects are a kind of beetle. But we call them ...

The sun set just a half hour ago as you casually sit in your backyard enjoying the summer skies and then look about at the flashes of light that pop above your lawn. Fireflies, aka lightning bugs, ...

Firefly season pressed into its full-on light show for 2018 in backyards across Pennsylvania in the past few days, about on schedule. Sightings of fireflies, or lightning bugs, in Pennsylvania begin ...

BETHANY BEACH, Del. (AP) — Peering through the darkness under the faint light of a peach-colored moon, wildlife biologist Jason Davis spots a telltale green flash in the bushes. Quick as a flash ...

BETHANY BEACH, Del. — Peering through the darkness under the faint light of a peach-colored moon, wildlife biologist Jason Davis spots a telltale green flash in the bushes. Quick as a flash himself, ...