cold fire in my hand, a firefly code. In these moments of awe, I’m tied to a tradition thousands of years old. One of the ...

And there’s something special in the water: Here you’ll find the most reliable display of naturally occurring bioluminescence in the United States. The more sheltered northern reaches of the ...

In the video, Lokesh waves his hands across the sand to produce the bluish glow. “Every step I took was glowing. Whenever I set the bag or tripod down, it would glow,” Lokesh told KUSI.

Glowing plankton’s typically tiny size is ... it wiggled a little in my hand and continued to glow. A second sample did the same thing. We carried one of the samples inside and put it safely ...

Fish dart below, leaving glowing trails like comets. A manatee glides silently by, its entire body haloed in shimmer. Even the splash from your hand glows, a sparkling echo of your own movement.

We are in one of Puerto Rico’s three bioluminescent bays ... Or working on a museum masterpiece with light following my hands, almost like color from a paintbrush, as I twirled in a circle ...

It only takes the gentle brush of a hand or slow glide of a boat to trigger the sparkling blue-green light of bioluminescent plankton, or phytoplankton. The dinoflagellates — single-celled ...

From late May to early July fireflies can be seen in Utah, contrary to popular belief. Their numbers typically peak around ...