Found in the forests of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Eastern Australia, birds of paradise are famous for flashy feathers ...

A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds sport biofluorescence in feathers, skin or even inside their throats.

Birds-of-paradise have long fascinated scientists with their dazzling courtship displays, but new research reveals they have ...

Trillions of microbes live inside us. Many are helpful; others, not so much. Over the last 15 years MIT has played a central ...

When excited with ultraviolet light, these crystals fluoresce at different wavelengths depending on their size. Bawendi, who later shared a Nobel prize for this work, did not like the first image ...