Like Deadpool, three-banded panther worms are able to regenerate body parts on their own. Even their heads. Now, a team of scientists from Harvard has genetically altered the unique worms so they glow ...

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 ...

Cut off the head of a three-banded panther worm and another will take its place — mouth, brain, and all. Cut off its tail and it will grow another. Cut the worm in three separate pieces and within ...

From night walks with children to switching off streetlights and rewilding areas, naturalists are working to save Europe’s dwindling populations An hour or so after sunset, green twinkles of ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Bright artificial lights dazzle glow-worms, an effect that could drive the glimmering insects to extinction, researchers have found 1. Female glow-worms (Lampyris noctiluca) emit green light from ...

In 1961, Osamu Shimomura and Frank Johnson isolated a protein from jellyfish that glow green under UV light. Corals, too, can fluoresce in a wide range of hues, thanks to similar proteins. Now, ...

The BDA Glow Worm Society arose out of a joke. A few years ago, boat pilot and diver Chris Gauntlett posted a question on social media, asking when the glow worms would be out. Every month during the ...

It takes just minutes for the earth to swallow me whole as I abseil into the cave’s mouth. My feet bounce off rock until suddenly the wall slopes away into a yawning cavern and I’m kicking out at open ...