How is Bioluminescence Employed By Humans and in NaturePatrick JohnsiMedPub
Throughout history, humans have devised ingenious ways of using bioluminescence to their advantage. Glowing fungi have been used by tribes tolight the way through dense jungles, for example, while fireflies wereused by minersas an early safety lamp. Perhaps inspired by these applications, researchers...
Lightning bugs of the beetle family Lampyridae (order Coleoptera), also known as fireflies, get their name because of their unique bioluminescent abilities. The world has over 2,000 species of lightning bugs spread across every continent except Antarctica. Lightning bugs primarily use their b...
What else do you think of when you think of bioluminescence? Our friend the firefly of course. Here's Photinus pyralis posing on a soy bean plant. Gail Shumway/Getty Images Another way to make photons, known as chemiluminescence, involves chemical reactions. When these reactions occur in li...
Visual communication can be observed over considerable distances, but can be limited in environments with limited visibility, such as night-time, in murky water or in thick vegetation. Many animals, such as fireflies, glow-worms and deep-sea fish usebioluminescenceto communicate in these low-visibi...
a lot of people actually thought it was bioluminescence initially. the difference is you can see it during the day, and usually bioluminescence isn't bright enough to be seen during the day. this is based fully on structure within the tissue, whereas bioluminescence is a chemical reaction that...
Is it any wonder that humans have developed so many stories about sea monsters when animals like this giant devil ray (or devil fish) have been found beneath the waves? This specimen caught in 1933 was more than 5,000 pounds (2,268 kilograms) and 20 feet (6 meters) wide. © Bett...
the receptor types that recognized the odors produced light, courtesy of a reporting system inside the cells that uses bioluminescence from fireflies. The more active the receptor was when given its matching odor, the more the cell glowed—a handy little hint about the whole wondrous structure stu...
Magnetic field - The earth has a magnetic field that's usually undetectable to humans who aren't holding a compass. Some animal species do have the ability to detect the magnetic field, however, and they use it to make their migrations. Bats and sea turtles use magnetic information to find...
so it makes bioluminescence, like fireflies make light. We're not doing anything to the cells here, we just took the picture by turning the lights off in the room, and this is what we see. 00:00 And what's actually interesting to us was not that the bacteria made light but...