Findings about the chemical makeup of cave systems can teach us about life in places humans have yet to reach.

A study led by scientists from the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has revealed that these birds emit a neon-like glow under ultraviolet (UV) light.

Inside Wind Cave the scientists found that chemicals fossilised within the rocks shine in brilliant hues of pink, blue, and ...

Biofluorescence is widespread in birds-of-paradise, a group of tropical birds famous for their spectacular courtship dances.

Unlike standard RGB images with their three channels, these files store information across numerous channels, each ...

Deep below the Earth’s surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the ...

An invisible band of radiation with wavelengths from 400 to 10 nm, ultraviolet (UV) light starts at the end of visible light and ends at the beginning of X-rays. The primary source of ultraviolet ...

They did not investigate visible UV fluorescence with black light—rather ... Crowell et al, Ecological drivers of ultraviolet colour evolution in snakes, Nature Communications (2024).

Fluorescence microscopy has undergone a renaissance ... owing to its scattering properties in visible wavelengths and the light-protective mechanisms that exist in most species to prevent ...

The fluorescence properties of the quantum ... At a minimum, a hand-held blue or ultraviolet light source and a high-quality color digital camera can be used to illuminate the blot and capture ...