News

Lab News

• Avalon Owens and Sara Lewis wrote about how Fireflies Need Dark Nights for The Conversation (2021)
• Congratulations to PhD student Avalon Owens for winning a Switzer Foundation Environmental Fellowship (2019)
• Avalon Owens and Sara Lewis wrote about China's Endangered Fireflies for Scientific American
• Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies (Princeton University Press 2016) named in Science News' Favorite Books of 2016
• Sara's TED Talk "The Loves and Lies of Fireflies" has reached nearly 1 million views
• Featured on NPR's Weekend Edition: The Dark Side to the Firefly's Flare – listen and tremble!

Media Coverage

Selected articles featuring Lewis Lab research from the popular press:

• Our firefly conservation work was highlighted in this Ologies podcast
• Our review of global threats to fireflies was reported in The Guardian and USA Today
• Lewis Lab research was featured in this Deep Look video from KQED Science (February 2018)
• New York Times (December 2013): For that Zeus bug in your life
• BBC Nature (July 2012): Gifts are secret of firefly sex
• Scientific American (June 2012) Social networking by hermit crabs
• New York Times – Carl Zimmer (June 2009): Blink twice if you like me
• Science Daily (September 2007): Hidden costs of firefly flashing
• Tufts Journal (Feb 2004): Firefly flash dance illuminates mating prowess
• AAAS News (2003): Study reports on chemical turn-ons for fireflies
• Harvard Magazine (July 2002): NO on a summer's eve
• CNN Sci-Tech (June 2001): Secret to firefly light? Natural Viagra
• BBC News (June 2001): Scientists find firefly switch
• USA Today (June 2001): Trigger of a firefly's flash discovered