Ever seen the ocean glow like a scene straight out of a sci-fi movie? Bioluminescent beaches do exactly that-turning the ...

It can sometimes be seen in warm, shallow bays or lagoons, but some bioluminescent algae can produce toxins harmful to marine life and humans ...

By conjugating luciferase protein to quantum dots, bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) turns these useful fluorophores into a new class of bioluminescent probe. Quantum dots have ...

Now, U.S. chefs are embracing the squid as well. Hiroshi Tsuji, 48, remembers fishing for hotaru ika when he was growing up ...

Light is a primary driver of visual evolution in shrimp, according to new FIU research published this week in Nature Communications.

Night kayaking offers an adventurous twist, requiring a different set of skills. Participants learn to navigate under the ...

This light is created by a chemical reaction, and it is one example of a phenomenon called bioluminescence. Bioluminescent organisms produce and radiate light. There are thousands of bioluminescent ...

French pharmacologist Raphael Dubois observed that a specific constituent of the click beetle was essential for bioluminescent reactions. He extracted two components from beetle abdomens, naming the ...

Hundreds of thousands of bioluminescent dinoflagellates live in each gallon of bay water, and the light show put on by these tiny creatures provide is truly a (natural) wonder to behold.

But the firefly is probably the Earth's most famous bioluminescent species. So what's happening inside the firefly's light cells? What's the secret to its glow? In the 19th century, French ...