I recently received a question about the use of technology in ecological research, which led to a discussion about blacklights. I wrote a column five years ago about a nighttime adventure in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beginning in late 2020 news of various creatures demonstrating fluorescence under ultraviolet (UV) light began to inundate the ...

When you think of something that glows under a UV light, the last thing that probably comes to mind is a scorpion, but, according to scientists they do glow, looking like something out of a laser tag ...

Scorpions are creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, and come with an evolutionary ooky — that is, the ability to glow under UV (ultraviolet) light. For decades, the reason why scorpions ...