A desert gecko from Namibia has brilliant glow-in-the-dark markings that shine neon green by the light of the moon. The mechanism that produces its glow has never been seen before in land animals ...

This compound turned out to be a unique protein that Shimomura named Green Fluorescent Protein, “GFP” for short. A flash of brilliance. In the mid 1980s, Martin Chalfie of Columbia University was ...

Swell sharks and chain catsharks can transform the ocean’s blue light into a luminous green hue. This phenomenon, called biofluorescence, has been studied in other marine creatures that are ...

A glow in the night Bacteria may light up the future. Glowee , a start-up company based in Paris, France, is developing bioluminescent lights to illuminate shop fronts and street signs. After a ...

These mice are glowing because scientists inserted a gene found in certain bioluminescent jellyfish into their DNA. That gene is a recipe for a protein that glows green when hit by blue or ...

Like the luminous lighting bugs and fireflies that light up the night sky across the United States, glow-worms and their green glow shine across parts of Europe and Asia. These beetles are in the ...

In 1961, Osamu Shimomura and Frank Johnson isolated the protein from jellyfish that glowed green in sunlight, yellow under a light bulb, and fluorescent green under UV light. (Shimomura shared the ...

Green light is primarily used to target pigment and inflammatory cells, ... Bring on that glow! ... “You want to buy from a brand that's transparent about the energy specifications,” says Dr ...

Scorpions are creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, and come with an evolutionary ooky — that is, the ability to glow under UV (ultraviolet) light. For decades, the reason why ...