Nature Photonics spoke to Yoriko Ando from the University of Tokyo about her recent quantitative analysis of the effect in fireflies. It is a chemiluminescence reaction that takes place in ...

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out ...

The majority of our evidence for dark matter’s existence comes from observing visible (or baryonic) matter that does not ...

A new perspective on wildlife at night. A team of biologists and specialist camera crew explore the length of South and Central America to find out how animals have adapted to life in the dark ...

In The Nature of Things documentary ... where the lack of light resulted in their reduced eyesight. In its dark, watery home, the olm takes nearly 16 years to reach maturity and even then ...

An innovative approach in the search for dark matter using space/time-separated atomic clocks and lasers has yielded ...

The remaining 95% is made up of two exotic entities that have never been produced in the laboratory and whose physical nature is still unknown. These are dark matter, which accounts for 25% of the ...