An curved arrow pointing right. Fireflies are a trademark of summer. We're all familiar with their glowing tails, but how do they produce that glow and why do they ...

Nature Photonics spoke to Yoriko Ando from the University of Tokyo about her recent quantitative analysis of the effect in fireflies. It is a chemiluminescence reaction that takes place in ...

Researchers have shed new light on the color of the glow that fireflies gave off about 100 million years ago by re-creating the luminescent enzyme from one the species possess today. The beetles ...

Every U.S. state but Hawaii has fireflies. Different species come out at different times of night and summer. They flash or glow in their own ways. Urban areas with bright lights and not enough ...

Bruce Branchini, Ph.D., from Connecticut College and colleagues at Yale University have recreated the firefly's glow in the lab. This bright discovery, published in a recent issue of the Journal ...

With spring around the corner, an Idaho-based startup company is making its new glow-in-the-dark petunia available again.

Glow-worms are a group of beetles that use their luminosity to help them flag down an appropriate mate. Glow-worms belong to the family Lampyridae. The beetles in this group are commonly known as ...

For example, fireflies glow—thanks to a different kind of luciferin in their bodies. The next time you see a firefly twinkling on a summer night, remember you are watching a chemical reaction that is ...

LONDON The mysterious secret of how fireflies control when they glow is starting to be unravelled. A study published in 29 June Science, has discovered that the key chemical that fireflies need to ...