They’re as bright as fireflies, but far harder to find. Still, experts say it’s worth seeking a glimpse of these stunning ...

* Fireflies operate at near 100% efficiency, with a trace amount of heat emitted from those flashes. Incandescent bulbs emit about 10% of their energy as light, with fluorescent bulbs coming in around ...

Understanding Bioluminescence and Its Significance Mangrove forest in Khok Kham ,Samut Sakhon near Bangkok Thailand. Bioluminescence is when some living things make light through a chemical reaction.

Thailand Beach. Image by Alexander Huang via Unsplash. The enchanting glow observed at certain beaches is primarily caused by microscopic marine organisms called dinoflagellates, particularly species ...

Sea Pansy (Renilla reniformis). Mike Brady, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Intricately tied to biology, the chemistry behind bioluminescence involves the luciferin-luciferase reaction, which varies ...

A satellite burns across a big sky so spangled with stars that even I can pick out Saturn, Orion’s Belt, and the Seven Sisters. Fishing bats drop from a dark wall of mangroves and skim the bay’s still ...

Imagine gliding across a midnight bay, your paddle slicing through inky black water, only to see shimmering blue light ...

Oxygen oxidizes the luciferin molecules, while luciferase accelerates the reaction and releases excess energy as light without generating heat. The light’s intensity, frequency, duration, and ...

Luciferin is a complex substance that produces light. Luciferase is an enzyme or a chemical that helps speed up a reaction. It allows oxygen molecules to bind to luciferin.

Euphausiids and dinoflagellates both use dinoflagellate luciferin. Cnidarians, ctenophores, some ostracods, copepods, decapod shrimps, chaetognaths, and larvaceans all use coelenerazine as their ...

IPT luciferin has sec-2-butyl at C-2, 3-indolyl at C-6, and 3- (1-guanidino)propyl functional groups at C-8 sites of the ITP ring, revealing the pseudo luciferase activity of the SARS-CoV-2 spike ...