“We're so much more complicated than that,” says Cassandra Coburn, also of U.C.L. and lead ... of the worm’s glowing death wave owes a lot to luck. Coburn was studying blue fluorescence ...

In an eerie discovery, we’ve found that dying worms emit an intense, blue glow that begins in their intestines before radiating outward into their entire bodies. Studying this “death ...

The eye on the squid's right side is small and the left eye is enormous. Check it out: The blue glow of the eyeball comes from the high energy blue light from the unmanned submarine recording the ...

“We’ve identified the chemical pathways of self-destruction that propagate cell death in worms, which we see as this glowing blue fluorescence traveling through the body,” said senior author ...

Dead is dead, some famous TV show about vacationing on an island once said. But how does dead, well, look? How do billions of cells shut off at once? An international team of researchers found ...

He thinks that scorpions glow to convert the dim UV light from the moon and the stars into the color that they see best — blue-green. This could explain why scorpion eyes are so exquisitely sensitive, ...