News

Lab News

• Congratulations to PhD student Avalon Owens for winning the Founders Memorial Poster Award at the 2018 Animal Behavior Society meeting held in Madison, Wisconsin for her poster "Does light pollution influence the flash color of Photinus pyralis fireflies?"
• 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!
• Sara gave a 24/7 talk about firefly sex at the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony

Articles

Selected articles featuring Lewis Lab research from the popular press:

• 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