In a study led by Sarah Worthan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the Behringer Lab at Vanderbilt University, scientists ...

Ball lightning, a rare glowing orb seen during thunderstorms, has intrigued scientists for centuries. Learn what causes it, ...

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James W. Satterlee receives funding from the National Science Foundation (IOS-2305651). As any avid gardener will tell you, plants with sharp thorns and prickles can leave you looking like you’ve had ...

Scientists learned a terrifying tactic that some spiders rely on to lure prey into their webs: using fireflies as glowing ...

Raquel Espin Palazon discovered that inflammatory signaling pathways must switch on for embryos to produce blood stem cells.

Experts have virtually explored the far reaches of the solar system to gather precise measurements of the glow that fills the ...

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Over billions of years, the universe's stars and galaxies shined their light into space, leaving behind an imperceptibly faint night light known as the cosmic optical background. NASA's New Horizons s ...

Well, these bats have glow toes. When ultraviolet light shines ... Australia. “That’s good science.” And the toes themselves are already considered rather bizarre. Mexican free-tailed ...