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To make brighter LEDs, scientists mimic fireflies

The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original. Researchers from Belgium, France, and Canada [...]

January 8, 2013