Bioluminescence is a chemical process where living organisms generate light. Jellyfish, fireflies, fungi, and more are all known to emit their very own glow. The Greek philosopher Aristotle observed ...

Deep within the world’s forests, nature hides one of its most mesmerising spectacles, mushrooms that glow in the dark. These ...

In 1840, renowned British botanist George Gardner reported a strange sight from the streets of Vila de Natividade in Brazil - a group of boys playing with a glowing object that turned out to be a ...

Most mushrooms grow in the dark, but some also glow in the dark, and researchers say they've discovered how they do it — and why. For thousands of years people have seen a glow often described as ...

In 1840, English botanist George Gardner was traveling in Brazil. One night, he noticed some boys playing with a strange, glowing object. To his shock, he had encountered a bioluminescent mushroom. It ...

N. gardneri mushrooms grow at the base of young babassu palms in Brazil. A bland tan by day, the fungi emit an eerie green light by night. A team of scientists recently created some fake, glowing ...

Taylor Lockwood is a mushroom hunter and photographer who has presented his work at shows throughout the world for over twenty-five years and has archived his photographs on the site Mushroom.Pro.

PISGAH NATIONAL FOREST, N.C. — Here’s what I was told: Get away from the city, go during a new moon and keep my flashlight off. When the sky faded black enough to spot stars twinkling, I’d be able to ...

If you catch them at the right time, some mushrooms have a pretty cool trick up their sleeves: They can glow in the dark. Some 71 of the 100,000 known species of fungus are bioluminescent, Reuters ...

Why on earth would a mushroom glow at night? The existence of bioluminescent mushrooms has been noted since the time of the ancient Greeks, but less is known is about why a small percentage of fungi ...

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