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 ...

You may have seen pictures of blue ... light. Bioluminescence occurs when a chemical reaction inside a living organism produces light as a byproduct. Doing so creates a glowing or twinkling effect.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...