View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Although bioluminescence has been observed for many centuries, its application in biomedicine is relatively recent. Scientists traced back the ...

Although all bioluminescent fungi emit green light (the true mushroom is the green one), the fungal luciferase can use different substrates leading to changes in intensity and color of emission.

Previous research has characterized the luciferin-luciferase combination in bioluminescent insects, bacteria, and marine mammals. But Wednesday's study is the first to describe this in fungi.

Sometimes the fungi's bioluminescence is so weak it cannot be seen with the naked eye. "Nowadays we always have our mobile phones or a flashlight, but to see bioluminescence in the forest ...

The ability to make light—bioluminescence—is both commonplace ... More than 90 species of fungi glow in the dark, including these Brazilian “coconut flower” mushrooms (Neonothopanus ...

Bioluminescence is when living organisms produce light through a chemical process. Jellyfish, fireflies, fungi, and more can have the ability to generate their very own glow. Over 2,000 years ago ...

Instead of making food from sunlight, some of these plants have become parasitic and primarily suck nutrients out of the fungi in their roots. Whether these orchids change their feeding method ...

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do? Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ...

Bioluminescent rainforest night runs are the latest trend in adventure sports, drawing runners and nature lovers from across ...

Put on your headphones. In today's episode, host Emily Kwong leads us on a night hike in Patuxent River State Park in Maryland. Alongside a group... Moths, owls and a fungi with over 20,000 sexes..