A new report in the journal Nature is challenging the age-old idea behind what attracts moths to a flame. The new research suggests that artificial light confuses insects because for millennia, they were responding only to natural light (the sun) as a way to understand what is up and what is down. Carolyn Beeler talks to the lead author of the study, Samuel Fabian, who studies insect flight at Imperial College London.
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