Scientists have found that artificial light can interfere with many insects' ability to position themselves relative to the sky. (Scott Linstead / Science Source) Turn on a light outside at night, and ...

Turn on a light outside at night, and it won't be long before a bevy of insects start careening wildly around it, apparently drawn in "like a moth to a flame," as the saying goes. Now, in a series of ...

Those insects you see flying in crazed circles are trying to keep their backs towards the light because they think that direction is up, new... 'Like moths to a flame'? Here's what's going on with ...

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