Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Like jellyfish, fungi, sea worms, and fireflies, some species of sea ...

On the island of Vieques, not a single stoplight stands between leafy, tropical hillsides and some of the Caribbean's best ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — The bioluminescent tide along San Diego's coastline is drawing its own share of onlookers on land, but also in the sea. In the video, a sea lion is seen jumping in and out of San ...

Auroras, meteor showers, and bioluminescent seas remind us that the planet still puts on the greatest displays.

“The whole appearance of the ocean was like a plane covered with snow. There was scarce a cloud in the heavens, yet the sky appeared as black as if a storm was raging.” These are the words written by ...

On some moonless nights, enormous patches of the Northwest Indian Ocean and seas around Indonesia begin to glow. This event has been witnessed by hundreds of sailors, but only one research vessel has ...

Many marine creatures emit light, providing one clue as to why the sea’s surface can sometimes appear ghostly white. Credit: Henley Spiers/Minden Pictures At first he thought that the pale, constant ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. David Gruber was on the southeast shores of Brazil when the ocean ...

The sky was moonless and overcast, leaving no stars to steer by. Alone at the helm in the middle of the Arabian Sea, somewhere between Oman and India, I could see nothing in the ink-black night save ...

Satellites previously detected a giant bioluminescent bloom in the Java Sea. Researchers found a boat crew that sailed through it. By William J. Broad Naomi McKinnon knew something was up, but she was ...

The males of a species of bioluminescent ostracod called the entraining grassbed downer use their glow and synchronized dance to attract mates. During this dance routine, male EGDs create their ...

A new generation of detectors let scientists identify a dozen large episodes of bioluminescence, one a hundred times larger than Manhattan — and that’s the smallest. By William J. Broad The ocean has ...