Learn how fireflies synchronize their flashes — and how that natural coordination could inspire future small‑scale robotics.

Yet swarms of fireflies clearly exercise a level of control over when they light up, and they do so only in specialized organs, and those are aspects scientists are still keen to understand better.

In A Nutshell Researchers spent five years at Congaree National Park measuring how individual Photuris frontalis fireflies adjust their flash timing when exposed to an artificial blinking light, ...