In a handful of forests across North America, thousands of fireflies abandon their solo acts and pulse together in eerie, ...

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 ...

In Japanese folk traditions, they symbolize departing souls or silent, ardent love. Some Indigenous cultures in the Peruvian Andes view them as the eyes of ghosts. And across various Western cultures, ...

Stake out in Pennsylvania's Cook State Forest at the right time of year and you can see one of nature's great light shows: swarms of fireflies that synchronize their flashes like strings of Christmas ...

Jul. 5—ATHENS — It was a perfect evening as night pulled down its curtain on the sun and dusk awakened the forest. Standing in the new darkness of a 100-acre wood on a recent summer evening, a group ...

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 ...

A new study by mathematicians shows that math borrowed from neuroscience can describe how swarms of these unique insects coordinate their light show, capturing key details about how they behave in the ...

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.