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How do fireflies glow? (video)


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By —— Bio and Archives July 21, 2015

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Warm summer nights wouldn’t be complete without the beautiful glow of fireflies. But until recently, we didn’t really understand how fireflies produced their glow. Now Bruce Branchini, Ph.D., from Connecticut College and colleagues at Yale University have recreated the firefly’s glow in the lab.



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