Washing up on our shores this week, we found small patches of fresh sargassum seaweed, large lightning whelks—which happen to ...

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

Light is a primary driver of visual evolution in shrimp, according to new FIU research published this week in Nature Communications. The deep sea is a dark place, with the only light coming from ...

Bioluminescence (the light produced by fireflies, for instance) requires a chemical reaction involving the molecules luciferin and luciferase. Biofluorescent creatures generate their glow with ...

Here are five of the most remarkable glow-in-the-dark animals. Fireflies are the most famous bioluminescent insects, lighting ...

KM3NeT uses sea water as the interaction medium for neutrinos. Its high-tech optical modules detect the Cherenkov light, a bluish glow that is generated during the propagation through the water of ...