It only takes the gentle brush of a hand or slow glide of a boat to trigger the sparkling blue-green light of bioluminescent plankton, or phytoplankton. The dinoflagellates — single-celled ...

Luciferin reacts with oxygen to produce blue-colored light in the ocean. It happens in the presence of an enzyme called luciferase. When the water where dinoflagellates live is disturbed, it triggers ...

Dinoflagellates light up whenever the water ... Then the yellow and green parts of the spectrum disappear, leaving just the blue. By 700 feet deep, the ocean has become a kind of perpetual ...

At night, the waters emit a blue glow from organisms called dinoflagellates that live in the waters and light up when disturbed by boats, paddles or hands dipped in the water. Hundreds of ...

At night, the waters emit a blue glow from organisms called dinoflagellates that live in the waters and light up when disturbed by boats, paddles or hands dipped in the water. Hundreds of ...

It only takes the gentle brush of a hand or slow glide of a boat to trigger the sparkling blue-green light of bioluminescent plankton, or phytoplankton. The dinoflagellates — single-celled ...