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Scientists have discovered that male fireflies in a South Carolina swamp follow local interaction rules to synchronize their flashing mating displays. The research is being presented at a meeting of ...

Periods of prolonged social isolation have long been associated with difficult emotions and, in some cases, with the emergence of psychiatric symptoms, such as depression, anxiety, and difficulties ...

In A Nutshell Researchers spent five years at Congaree National Park measuring how individual Photuris frontalis fireflies ...

Elementary school teachers report increasing behavioral problems among young students. Schools are helping to better train teachers to deal with classroom behavior issues. Elementary teachers say they ...

In many real-world systems, such as fireflies flashing, Japanese tree frogs croaking, magnetic Janus particles, neurons firing, and in various engineered systems like drone swarms and wireless sensor ...