From frogs to orchids, many organisms go dormant or move underground for lengthy stints Brian Handwerk - Science Correspondent A variety of plants and animals go through periods where they are dormant ...

Ever wondered if life itself shines, even if just a little? A fascinating 2024 study published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters by researchers at the University of Calgary and the National ...

This phenomenon, known as ultraweak photon emission (UPE) or biophoton emission, suggests that all living things subtly glow during life, a glow that fades when life ends.

For the first time, scientists have directly measured “ultraweak” photon emissions from living organisms. In rats this glow fades rapidly after death. In plants it brightens under stress. In the ...

All living things, including humans, constantly emit a ghostly glow – and it appears to vanish almost as soon as we die. Monitoring this signal could one day help track forest health or even detect ...

We teamed up with the makers of Frozen Planet II for a science Live Lesson exploring the coldest places on Earth and the ...

Living things emit a faint ghostly glow throughout their lives that only vanishes when they die, a new study has claimed. For a long time, mystics and spiritualists have claimed to see this mysterious ...

Romulus and Remus are doing what puppies do: chasing, tussling, nipping, nuzzling. But there’s something very un-puppylike about the snowy white 6-month olds—their size, for starters. At their young ...

When Robert Macfarlane, a nature writer, was walking with his son to school, the boy asked him the title of his current book project. “Is a River Alive?” Macfarlane replied. “Well, duh, that’s going ...

Your gut microbiome is comprised of the microscopic life in your digestive tract and all the things they produce. Some ...