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Professor of Zoology (Evolution, Behaviour and Environment), University of Sussex The invention of electric light has extended our lives deeper into the night: street lamps help us travel more safely ...
Nights on Earth are getting brighter with the spread of human light pollution, reducing humankind’s visibility of the cosmos. But the brightening night is also messing with glow-worms, spunky insects ...
WANT to know the difference between a firefly and a glow-worm? First, they aren’t flies or worms – both of them are beetles. In some species, only the larvae or females glow, and these wingless ...