If you like creatures that glow in the dark, you’ll probably love Chillingo’s new CreaVures, a puzzle game featuring five lovable bioluminescent creatures who must “pull back the blanket of night and restore the forest to its luminescent grandeur.” From the makers of Cut the Rope, CreaVures f... |
6 April 2012
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Researchers finally managed to figure out why certain marine bacteria exhibit a phenomenon called bioluminescence. This is the scientific name for things that glow naturally. The benefits of this process on the bacteria were not known for certain until now. In some aquatic microorganisms, bioluminescence only occur... |
27 February 2012
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Researchers were recently able to confirm one of the most important presuppositions about why certain species of deep-sea microorganisms glow in the dark. Apparently, the bacteria do so because they can then get a free ride to other parts of the ocean, inside the bellies of fish and other marine creatures.
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28 December 2011
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Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder has revealed that up to 90% percent of the underwater creatures generate light. Widder states that marine animals often use their own light to look for food and detect predators, the New York Times informs. The researcher exploits this extraordinary feature to monitor levels of pol... |
19 December 2011
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The natural world is teeming with examples of cooperation between parasites and the organisms they infect. At times, the merger can be beneficial to both species, and this appears to be the case when caterpillars are infected by parasitic worms too. It would seem that, when the worms infect particular species of cate... |
4 January 2011
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Two scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, have discovered the secret of a strange sea snail, which uses flashes of bioluminescent light as a defense mechanism.A species of 'clusterwink snail' called Hinea brasiliana, was studied by Dimitri Deheyn and Nerida Wilson of Scripps Oce... |
15 December 2010
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A team of undergraduates at the University of Cambridge, observed the living beings than glow naturally in the dark and developed genetic tools that allow bioluminescence features to be transferred into an organism. So in a few years, you could walk the streets at night and your path could be lit by bioluminescent t... |
26 November 2010
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In a more unusual study, researchers have demonstrated that they can condition artificially engineered bacterial cells to produce amazing light shows under a microscope. Their challenge did not lay as much in creating the cells themselves, as it did in making them fluoresce simultaneously, and in various types of pat... |
22 January 2010
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Until only recently, experts weren't exactly sure what allowed lantern sharks to turn their glow on and off, and, when asked, they would just say that the animals themselves were in control of the ability. However, a new scientific study seems to demonstrate that the assertion is not entirely true. It may be tha... |
9 November 2009
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Organic light has fascinated mankind for centuries, and the quest to replicate nature's engineering abilities has preoccupied many scientists.Did you know that some squids use bioluminescence to communicate, or that large groups of jellyfish display an impressive light show when they gather to mate, and even a ... |
12 April 2007
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