FIGURE 1. Fireflies, fireflies burning bright.
From the following article:
Nanotechnology: Nano-oscillators get it together
Pritiraj Mohanty
Nature 437, 325-326 (15 September 2005)
doi:10.1038/437325a
In the forests of the night, certain species of firefly flash in perfect synchrony — here Pteroptyx malaccae in a mangrove apple tree in Malaysia. Kaka et al.2 and Mancoff et al.3 show that the same principle can be applied to oscillators at the nanoscale.
