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Researchers Reverse Engineer Fireflies To Make More Efficient LEDs
By Colin Lecher, popsci.com

Fireflies have a neat trick for conserving light. Turns out, it could work for LEDs, too.

Some­times, a trick gets pulled off bet­ter in nature than it does in a lab­o­ra­to­ry. That might be the case with new research claim­ing fire­flies’ uniq…

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