The ‘Sea of Stars’ is a recurring natural phenomenon that turns the shoreline into a glowing spectacle after nightfall.

The gene encoding an enzyme from a firefly, discovered at the Sorocaba campus of the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar ...

It is a chemiluminescence reaction that takes place in fireflies, producing a distinctive yellow-green emission. A substance called luciferin is oxidized using the catalyst enzyme luciferase ...

French pharmacologist Raphael Dubois observed that a specific constituent of the click beetle was essential for bioluminescent reactions. He extracted two components from beetle abdomens, naming the ...

Luciferin is the compound that generates light, and luciferase is the enzyme that acts on it. Today, we know that the firefly's bioluminescent reaction plays out like this. A firefly diverts ...

Friends of Blue Spring State Park hosts firefly nights, an event that raises money and allows guests to stay after the park closes for the day.

For this reaction to happen a plant or animal must carry a molecule called luciferin, plus one of two enzymes called luciferase and photoprotein. When luciferin chemically reacts with oxygen, it ...

is produced by energy released from chemical reactions occurring inside or by the organism itself. For this to happen, the ...