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Tag: Tron

Researchers Reverse Engineer Fireflies To Make More Efficient LEDs

January 13, 2013April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

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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