Last Thursday, Scripps researchers hopped on a small boat in the darkness of the ... bioluminescence and the minuscule Phytoplankton behind it all. Here's what to know, including how to see ...

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 ...