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 ...

Like Deadpool, three-banded panther worms are able to regenerate body parts on their own. Even their heads. Now, a team of scientists from Harvard has genetically altered the unique worms so they glow ...

Glow worms and slime moulds might sound like something from outer space, but they're actually organisms found in Scotland's rainforest. According to NatureScot, the country has about 30,000 hectares ...

A group of researchers in Japan have discovered three new species of sea worms that quite literally glow in the dark. The new bioluminescent Polycirrus worms, which emit a blue-violet light, were ...

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 ...

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In 1961, Osamu Shimomura and Frank Johnson isolated a protein from jellyfish that glow green under UV light. Corals, too, can fluoresce in a wide range of hues, thanks to similar proteins. Now, ...

A researcher from the University of Queensland has made an exciting discovery about Tasmanian cave glow-worms - they can tell the time. David Merritt has just completed a two-week study into the ...

Visit New Zealand and you may find yourself, some night, in a cave, watching glow worms light up the dark like wiggling stars. But besides being enchanting, these worms—fungus gnat maggots, ...

The BDA Glow Worm Society arose out of a joke. A few years ago, boat pilot and diver Chris Gauntlett posted a question on social media, asking when the glow worms would be out. Every month during the ...

A citizen science project is aiming to document species on the Cowal Peninsula for the first time in 50 years.