Bioluminescence offers some of the most awe-inspiring natural displays, where night waters turn into shimmering light shows.

On Koh Yao Noi, you can truly experience the warmth of the local fishing communities. The island’s mangrove forests are ideal ...

Marine creatures rely on bioluminescence for communication, finding prey, camouflage, and more. It’s so important, in fact, that the trait has evolved 27 times among ray-finned fishes ...

Bioluminescence imaging (BLI) is a technology that uses light emitted by enzyme-catalyzed reactions to report activity at the molecular level. Bioluminescent reporters require a small chemical ...

The authors also suggest this huge variation of colours and patterns could mean the fish are using the glow to communicate ...

Shafiee’s group has now developed an easy-to-use bioluminescent diagnostic test that can accurately detect several viruses in blood serum (Nat. Biomed. Eng. 2025, DOI: 10.1038/s41551-025-01405-9).

Trees first appeared on Earth during the Devonian period, around 385 million years ago, and dinosaurs about 100 million years later, between 250 to 200 million years ago. But you might be surprised to ...

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The fate of coral reefs has been written with a degree of certainty rare in climate science: at 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming, most are expected to die. This is not a far-off scenario.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Hawaii's coral reefs are experiencing severe degradation due to surging sea-urchin populations, primarily caused by overfishing of their natural predators. Net ...

Geological time capsule highlights Great Barrier Reef's resilience A combination of stressors, not sea levels alone, cause the demise of reefs Date: June 2, 2025 Source: University of Sydney ...