Some animals produce their own light, no special effects involved. In certain cases, it helps them hunt or avoid predators.

Scientists have discovered that bioluminescent cells found in some glass squids are biologically inefficient. However, this inefficiency, whereby light is leaked outwards rather than channelled ...

Have you ever wondered how some animals glow in the dark? Bioluminescence is a natural ability in particular living creatures to produce light. It happens through a chemical reaction inside their ...

Bioluminescence, Widder believes, is the most common, and most eloquent, language on earth, and it’s informing fields from biomedicine to modern warfare to deep-sea exploration. Most recently, on a ...

The mutualistic association between Vibrio fischeri and the bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes has long served as an exemplary model for the study of host–microbe interactions. In this symbiosis, V.