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This light is created by a chemical reaction, and it is one example of a phenomenon called bioluminescence. Bioluminescent organisms produce and radiate light. There are thousands of bioluminescent ...

Imagine gliding across a midnight bay, your paddle slicing through inky black water, only to see shimmering blue light ...

And those light cells are where the magic happens: the phenomenon of bioluminescence, when a chemical reaction in a living thing emits light. Fireflies aren't the only creatures that have this power.

Using statistical methods, the researchers derived an evolutionary tree of light-producing lineages. Fish evolved intrinsic bioluminescence—the ability to produce light without the aid of ...

This light can come from a bioluminescent protein that produces light via a chemical reaction. “We tried firefly luciferase first, and it was very hard to do the conjugation,” says Rao.