Deep within the world’s forests, nature hides one of its most mesmerising spectacles, mushrooms that glow in the dark. These bioluminescent fungi emit a soft, otherworldly light that transforms the ...

Most mushrooms grow in the dark, but some also glow in the dark, and researchers say they've discovered how they do it — and why. For thousands of years people have seen a glow often described as ...

Anna (Norris) Mitchell is a writer, editor, and photographer who loves capturing nature through her camera lens. Panellus stipticus is one of the brightest-glowing bioluminescent mushrooms on Earth.

Scientists have discovered what makes bioluminescent mushrooms glow, a phenomenon that occurs in around 80 different fungi species across the world. Most of the time, bioluminescence - light emission ...

When is a mushroom more than just a mushroom? When it glows. It might sound like a psychedelic riddle, but when it comes to bioluminescent mushrooms, it’s reality. The glow-in-the-dark fungi have been ...

Glowing in the dark costs energy. So why do mushrooms bioluminescence? To answer this question, researchers from Brazil and the U.S. focused on the pale green light emitted from fungi. They had a ...

As if teensy night-lights were dangling from tree trunks and branches, glow-in-the-dark mushrooms illuminate the forests across the globe. Now, scientists have discovered several species of such ...

Scientists have discovered what makes bioluminescent mushrooms glow, a phenomenon that occurs in around 80 different fungi species across the world. Most of the time, bioluminescence - light emission ...

Researchers finally have an answer to why mushrooms glow. The light emitted from those fungi attracts the attention of insects, including beetles, flies, wasps, and ants. Those insect visitors are ...