A bizarre natural phenomenon lights up the water off these three beaches, making the sea shine with a surreal blue light. As night falls on certain beaches around the world, the waves glow with an ...

Now a team of researchers has discovered how these animals create the glowing effects. The research ... Biofluorescence works when blue light—the dominant color present in ocean water—is ...

emitting harmless blue light, though the study can’t say precisely how the pigments confer protection. The glow itself, for example, may simply be an ancillary effect of the pigments ...

Tiny snails found on Australia's eastern coast can flicker their spiral shells like dim, blue-green light ... shell in green laser light, showing the diffusion/glowing effect.

If someone says “You’re glowing!” you may be in love. Or, more likely, you’re a marine animal. It’s a separate process from biofluorescence, in which blue light hits the surface of an ...

Incredible footage has revealed the moment a nuclear reactor pulses and sends out an eerie blue glow ... light in this medium, its passage causes a brief flash of light, a Cherenkov light. The ...

Under UV light, ripening bananas appear in a bright ... reports in the journal Angewandte Chemie that the blue glow is connected to the degradation of chlorophyll that occurs during ripening.

Cherenkov radiation is a form of energy that we can perceive as a blue glow emitted when the electrically ... of particles that compose visible light, creating a “shock-wave” of visible light. It is ...

Under normal light, these bright, glowing rims would look ... amplifies the effect, allowing humans to more clearly see the blue emissions. To prove that these emissions were involved in the ...