Imagine an old-growth forest in the fading light of a summer evening. As the last of the sun’s rays disappear beneath the horizon, a tiny flash catches your eye. You turn around, hold your breath; it ...
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 ...
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A massive swarm of fireflies is set to light up the Great Smoky Mountains.Synchronous fireflies are one of at least 19 species of fireflies that live in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is the ...
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, ...
It’s difficult to pick which ongoing technological revolution is freakiest. There are, for example, robots that can walk, and even dance, with ease. There’s also CRISPR, the sleeper tech that may give ...
NASA is preparing to launch Starling, its first satellite swarm. Instead of communicating directly with the four Starling cubesats, mission operators will send instructions to the swarm as a single ...
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