With a boom in social media attention over the last few years, photographers, swimmers, surfers -- even the occasional dog-- have experienced the splendor of bioluminescence, a phenomenon that ...

Lanternfish are one of many animals that light up the ocean with their glowing bodies. Watch fish expert Ollie Crimmen explain more about these deep-sea dwellers. Lanternfishes have light-producing ...

An extraordinary number of living creatures, from bacteria to insects to sharks, are capable of 'lighting up'. Known as bioluminescence, this 'living light' has long fascinated humans. In 79 AD ...

The Branchini Bioluminescence Research Group (BRG) at Connecticut College is under the direction of Professor Bruce Branchini in the Department of Chemistry. Bioluminescence — the emission of light by ...

“This is the most comprehensive scientific publication on the distribution of fish bioluminescence ever written, and the authors show that bioluminescence evolved way more times independently than ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence—the biological production of light—is one of the flashier survival tools used for luring prey, communication ...

In the world of bioluminescence, it’s common for organisms to get luciferin—the small molecule needed to make light—from their diet. Scientists have hypothesized that bioluminescent fish make their ...

Chennai recently experienced a captivating natural spectacle as bioluminescent waves illuminated its coastline, drawing the ...

Traditionally, luminescence has not been able to provide sufficient spatial resolution at the microscopic level without the use of expensive imaging equipment. The new Olympus LV200 microscope has ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence -- the biological production of light -- is one of the flashier survival tools used for luring prey, communication, and ...