While light bulbs make our nights brighter, they are dimming the social lives, and survival rates, of some of nature’s natural light-makers: fireflies. A 2021 report found that 1 in 3 North American ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Each year thousands come to the mountains to see the synchronous firefly light up the night sky. Synchronous fireflies, whose scientific name is Photinus carolinus, are one ...

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 ...

Advanced alien civilizations might not be whispering across the cosmos with radio waves at all, but instead flickering like ...

Could seeing the luminescent twinkle of fireflies on summer evenings soon be a thing of the past? Recent claims circulating on social media say that we may be the last generation to have grown up with ...