In the middle of the old-growth forests of Congaree National Park in South Carolina, fireflies put on an otherworldly display ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a humid summer evening, the thick temperate deciduous forest is hauntingly dark. As soon as the last twilight of dusk disappears, you begin to see sparkling dots emerge from the canopies. As your ...

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 ...

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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.