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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just go into the desert in the middle of the night, and switch on an ultraviolet (UV) light. Under the beam, scorpions glow a vibrant blue-green ... should have the same effect.

The visual effects industry has paid tribute to Petro Vlahos - the pioneer of blue- and green-screen systems ... appearing to have a strange looking glow as a side-effect. He called his invention ...