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Behold, the shimmering halos around the spots on a banana.
food

How to Make Fluorescent Food

A UV light and specific ingredients can make a dish or drink change color.
Anne Ewbank December 16, 2024
Glowworm Tunnel, Australia
caves

10 Places That Glow

The Earth puts on a massive rave.
Atlas Obscura November 12, 2024
Hanamaki, Japan

‘Future City Galactic Earth Railway’

A fantastical glow-in-the-dark mural inspired by the city’s most famous writer, Kenji Miyazawa.
Bandicoots are just one of many mammals that fluoresce.
animals

Blacklight Studies Reveal That Most Mammals Secretly Glow

"It is, quite literally, seeing things in a whole new light.”
Sunny Fitzgerald October 10, 2023
Of the 151 species they studied, all of them, including this tree frog, <em>Dendropsophus rhodopeplus</em> (shown under blue light), displayed some level of fluorescence.
science

Biologists Threw a Fluorescent Frog Rave in the Amazon, for Science

Turns out many of the frogs glow, maybe to communicate.
Roxanne Hoorn August 22, 2023
Coleman's shrimp (<em>Periclimenes colemani</em>) like these live on fire sea urchins. The shrimp are usually found in male/female pairs, where females are the larger of the two, and perch on sea urchins where they feed on plankton, algae, and parasites.
underwater

How the Best Underwater Photography Reveals a World of Wonder

Welcome to the home of pink coral-scapes and fluorescent lizardfish.
Sarah Durn March 23, 2023
museums

Podcast: Fluorescent Rocks of Sterling Hill

A light show, courtesy of a historic New Jersey mine.
The Podcast Team November 30, 2022
These "Yooperlites" would fit right in in a game of laser tag.
collections

The Spectacular Science of the Great Lakes' Glowing Rocks

Under UV light, some of them look downright magical.
Jessica Leigh Hester October 13, 2020
The newly described auroral dunes are visible on the left, next to the more common curtain-like forms.
astronomy

How Finnish Skywatchers Discovered a Strange New Aurora

The mysterious phenomenon resembles green sand dunes in the sky.
Sabrina Imbler January 31, 2020
Red <em>Noctiluca scintillans</em> leave neon trails along beaches near Taiwan’s Matsu Islands.
science

China’s Bioluminescent Blue Tears Are Beautiful and Associated With Toxic Blooms

And scientists are making new discoveries about them using satellite imagery.
Jonathan Carey June 14, 2019
Bioluminescence from glowing plankton off Vaadhoo Island in the Maldives.
Vaadhoo, Maldives

Sea of Stars

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.
Another angle of a STEVE's mauve glow.
astronomy

Scientists Demystify the Celestial Phenomenon Known as STEVE

It's way cooler than an aurora.
Sabrina Imbler April 30, 2019
Glowworms in Waipu Cave
Waipu, New Zealand

Waipu Caves

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.
A blue glow in the surf has been observed during hours of darkness along a 15-mile stretch of California coast.
nature

A 15-Mile Stretch of California's Coast Is Currently Glowing Neon Blue

It's due to an unusual algal bloom known as a red tide.
Julia Carrie Wong May 15, 2018
Helensburgh, Australia

Glowworm Tunnel

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.
A budgie fluoresces under ultraviolet light.
science

Everything We Know About Birds That Glow

Owls, puffins, and lots of other flying friends exhibit fascinating patterns under blacklights.
Cara Giaimo April 11, 2018
The colorful, glowing rocks of Sterling Hill
Ogdensburg, New Jersey

Fluorescent Rocks of Sterling Hill Mine

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.
money

Keep Your Eye Out for Canada's New Glow-in-the-Dark Toonie

The special-edition release is the first photoluminescent coin to ever enter circulation.
Cara Giaimo June 13, 2017