Bioluminescent animals, found in oceans, forests, and caves, possess the remarkable ability to produce their own light through chemical reactions. This natural illumination serves vital roles, from ...

As part of the 2025 Beaker Street Science Photography Prize, photographer Ben Alldridge submitted a photo of a wild Eastern ...

Pesticides, habitat loss, and light pollution are threatening firefly populations worldwide, but even in urban areas, some ...

It’s the last day of June and I’m standing under the overhang on my back deck protected from the last drips of a rainstorm.

A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) proposes that the core of our galaxy is full of an all-new category of star called a dark dwarf—and that these not-so ...

Humans have a new way of seeing infrared light, without the need for clunky night-vision goggles. Researchers have made the first contact lenses to convey infrared vision — and the devices work ...