With their enchanting evening glow, fireflies are one of the most iconic aspects of suburban American life, but how does this light actually work?

FeatureThe 14 people who survived being simultaneously struck by lightning in eastern France on September 2, 2017, remain a close-knit group and a valuable sample for scientific research.

The "lohud Summer 100" fill-in-the-blank — "It's not summer until I …" — got us thinking. Visual journalists Tania Savayan and Seth Harrison fanned out across the Lower Hudson Valley in ...

Anecdotally, many of those people also report seeing fewer fireflies—or lightning bugs, as they’re called in some places—every summer. Experts say there’s scientific merit to that ...

Memorial Day might mark the unofficial start of summer, but it isn’t real for me until I see groups of fireflies or lightning bugs. As a kid, chasing the gentle glowing bugs flying in seemingly ...

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