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 ...

Get to know the special glow-in-the-dark flower this spring ... they were lit up with a spray made from genetic material from fireflies. Scientists have been looking for something that would ...

Minecraft fans have been requesting Mojang to add fireflies to the game for quite some time now. Mojang almost added it at one point before backing off.

Many animals can glow in the dark. Fireflies famously blink on summer evenings. But most animals that light up are found in the depths of the ocean. In a new study, scientists report that deep-sea ...

Plans to bring a firefly mob to Minecraft were scrapped for a bizarre reason, but now they're back, this time as a beautiful ...

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 ...

About 250 “genji-botaru” fireflies mesmerized online spectators as they flitted about inside a dark acrylic cube roughly ... “I hope people watch how fireflies glow with heart and soul ...

But how did fireflies manage to catch lightning in a ... What's the secret to its glow? In the 19th century, French pharmacologist Raphaël Dubois, working with bioluminescent clams, discovered ...

Once a mesmerizing beacon of hope in the darkness, fireflies, or “Jugnu”, are now a fading memory in the country. These ...