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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 ...

"The fascination of glow worms for me is that they are in effect magic," says ecologist Pete Cooper, as he tramples through thistles and nettles. "The glow worm has been the symbol of the other world, ...

Biochemists on a mission to discover the molecular basis for a glowworm’s bioluminescence. If you were to gaze upon a cave full of New Zealand glow worms, you may think you’re looking at a star-lit ...

Jeffers, who is an official Hobbiton photographer, frequently captures incredible landscapes for tourism companies. He snapped some glowworm photos for Discover Waitomo, a company that organizes cave ...

When threatened, the marine parchment tube worm secretes a sticky slime that emits a unique long-lasting blue light. New research into how the worm creates and sustains this light suggests that the ...