Across the water, the lights of Brooklyn suspend like fireflies in the night air.
Too many electric lights eradicate a sense of being outside, overpowering stars and fireflies.
William liked Bloomington, with its lush, towering trees, and fireflies at dusk, and its austere gray university buildings.
The team will work with luciferase, an enzyme common in fireflies as well as some glowing fungi and bacteria.
Previous efforts to create light-emitting plants in the lab have made use of a luciferase gene derived from fireflies.
Later, in the near-dark, we sat on the screened porch watching the fireflies.
Most are motes that sparkle like fireflies as they burn up entering the atmosphere, about 100 tons worth each day.
When the bottle was empty Loren pretended to try to catch fireflies with it, but he was obviously just clowning around.
Now and then, the fireflies pulsed in unison, mysteriously, as if they all agreed on something we humans didn't know about.
With fireflies flitting through the canopy layers and the night alive with the screeches and cries of unseen wildlife, the rainforest is a fairytale kingdom.
When night falls, thousands of fireflies light up these river reeds like Christmas trees, making this a truly fairytale end to a very special journey.
We walked a ways more, enjoying the silence and the fireflies.
The studio contacted him after hearing Owl City's pop song, "Fireflies, " which was Mr. Young's first No. 1 hit single after he was discovered on Myspace.
"Inspired by fireflies... our team of Stanford-trained PhDs are using off-the-shelf methods to create real glowing plants in a do-it-yourself bio lab in California, " said project leader Antony Evans.
Scientists have done such experiments thousands of times, with a Crayola box of colors and using glowing genes taken from jellyfish and fireflies (see: " Biotech's Glowing Breakthrough").
Down by the rushing stream, banks of wild yellow irises shimmered in the twilight, and up in the vaulted corridor that the tracks cut through the trees, the mild June air was filled with twinkling green fireflies.
Fireflies in the thick evenings.
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