Detail view of Wendy Smith's cover art for Distant Plastic Trees, The Magnetic Fields' debut album, on which the song "100,000 Fireflies" was released in 1991. It starts with the kind of lyric you ...

Artist China Blue is interested in the hidden acoustics of the world. She has attached microphones to the Eiffel Tower and created an audio homage to the World Trade Center using 9/11 air traffic ...

Fireflies outside Nevis, New York. Good morning. Researchers hope to identify and protect fireflies before they flicker out. The New York Natural Heritage Program recently finished a three-year ...

When we think of camouflage, it’s usually a visual pattern. But how do you hide from a predator that uses sound to find food, like a bat? If you’re a firefly, it turns out you might resort to a ...

Susan Anway, the singer on The Magnetic Fields' early albums, died this month. For many, her legacy is the remarkable "100,000 Fireflies," a... It starts with the kind of lyric you might expect near a ...

Detail view of Wendy Smith's cover art for Distant Plastic Trees, The Magnetic Fields' debut album, on which the song "100,000 Fireflies" was released in 1991. (Courtesy of Merge Records) ...