The invention of electric light has extended our lives deeper into the night: street lamps help us travel more safely outdoors, while lighting indoors lets us work and play for longer. Entire stadiums ...

Nights on Earth are getting brighter with the spread of human light pollution, reducing humankind’s visibility of the cosmos. But the brightening night is also messing with glow-worms, spunky insects ...

Bioluminescence, the natural ability of organisms to produce light, is one of nature’s most captivating phenomena. While often linked to deep-sea creatures, many terrestrial insects also display this ...

The bright lights of big cities are wonders of the modern world; intended to help us work, stay safe and enjoy the world around us long after the sun has set. While artificial light has been great for ...

Bright artificial lights dazzle glow-worms, an effect that could drive the glimmering insects to extinction, researchers have found 1. Female glow-worms (Lampyris noctiluca) emit green light from ...

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As darkness falls on a warm summer evening, a tiny green light may suddenly appear among the grasses. It might look like something from a fairy tale, but this mysterious glow belongs to one of Britain ...

For some, glowing is a way to find a mate. For others, it's a clever trick to catch food or stay alive. Here are five animals ...

At night, we saw a vicious predator attacking a much larger prey. In the morning, we saw the brightest red blood I have ever seen. We were not anywhere near African big game. A larval insect was the ...

Female glow-worms attract males with a chemical reaction in their abdomen. Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock The invention of electric light has extended our lives deeper into the night: street lamps ...