Nights on Earth are getting brighter with the spread of human light pollution, reducing humankind’s visibility of the cosmos. But the brightening night is also messing with glow-worms, spunky insects ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland researcher and lecturer Dr David Merritt has discovered Tasmanian cave glow-worms are energy conservationists: they switch their lights off at night-time. The ...

Like Deadpool, three-banded panther worms are able to regenerate body parts on their own. Even their heads. Now, a team of scientists from Harvard has genetically altered the unique worms so they glow ...

What sea level rise looks like in North Carolina, bioluminescent glow worms and sun power Hyde county, NC struggles with the impacts of sea level rise, researchers in New Zealand are on a quest to ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) – Most of us “probably” think of a warm July night when it comes to spotting fireflies. You might not know that you can see them another form right now, known informally as ...

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According to a new study published in Developmental Cell, researchers are employing transgenesis methods to introduce a gene into the three-banded panther worm’s genome. The result? Glow-in-the-dark ...

Most are familiar with at least the most basic concept in genetics: inheritance. If both of your biological parents have brown hair, then there’s a pretty good chance that you will have brown hair, ...

In 1961, Osamu Shimomura and Frank Johnson isolated a protein from jellyfish that glow green under UV light. Corals, too, can fluoresce in a wide range of hues, thanks to similar proteins. Now, ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) – Most of us “probably” think of a warm July night when it comes to spotting fireflies. You might not know that you can see them another form right now, known informally as ...