For hundreds of years sailors have told stories about miles of glowing ocean during a moonless night. In 1849 on the Arabian Sea, one sailor, Captain Kempthorne, described a most extraordinary ...

Darkness dominates most of the ocean. Sunlight fades quickly as you descend, and by the time you reach the deep sea, natural ...

Scientists have developed a radiant new way to determine if wine is spoiled. The technique utilizes engineered bacteria to detect the vinegar-like taste of acetic acid building up. Upon detection, ...

“Milky seas” are an ocean phenomenon that cause a vast area of the ocean to glow. Scientists are trying to predict when the events occur in hopes of better understanding the bioluminescent display. - ...

Glowing bacteria use bioluminescence to tell synthetic vesicles when to hitch a ride and when to let go, enabling fully autonomous cargo transport. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Complex behavior in biological ...

Wounded soldiers glowing with a greenish-blue. Those soldiers inexplicably recovering more quickly than others. A Halloween tale for this time of year? No, it was a true episode from the Civil War - ...

Researchers from the United Kingdom have developed a glowing gel that simultaneously reveals bacteria under ultraviolet light and kills bacteria in just a few hours, according to a Huffington Post ...

UBC researchers have engineered gut bacteria that dim their fluorescent glow in the presence of illness. Their findings, published in Cell today, could improve how we diagnose problems in the gut by ...

For over 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow as far as the eye can see.Related video above: Check out this amazing video of a kayaker paddling ...