This prescient study reveals that bioluminescent mushrooms in the jungles of Brazil glow in the dark to attract insects leading to spore di...

Nuvens de pontos luminosos que rasgam o ar, manchas brilhantes que se assentam sobre troncos de árvores apodrecidos, lanternas caminhantes...

The first historical anecdote describing the phenomenon of mushroom bioluminescence was by Aristotle in the third century BC. The ability f...

Uma lâmpada acesa perto de uma área arborizada parece servir como verdadeiro farol para todo o tipo de inseto. Atraídos pela luz, esses bic...

Cientistas descobriram que fungos encontrados no Brasil e que emitem luz natural, um fenômeno chamado de bioluminescência, têm o “relógio b...

À noite, um verde fluorescente tinge o solo da mata dos cocais nos estados de Piauí, Maranhão, Tocantins e Goiás, no Centro e Norte do Bras...

Manche Pilze leuchten im Dunkeln. Nun haben Forscher eine mögliche Erklärung dafür gefunden, warum sich dieses energieaufwendige Phänomen z...

A team of scientists recently created some fake, glowing mushrooms and scattered them in a Brazilian forest in hopes of solving an ancient...

Scientists have known about bioluminescent fungus since ancient times. But even Aristotle was not sure why some mushrooms would need to glo...

If you go out on a dark night, preferably during a new moon, in certain forests in northeastern Brazil you may find something peculiar: lar...

2300 years ago, Aristotle wondered why some mushrooms glow, and now, scientists may finally have an answer. In the journal Current Biology,...

Wenn es Nacht wird im brasilianischen Kokoswald, beginnen einige Pilze grünlich zu leuchten. Sie locken auf diese Weise Insekten an, die da...

Em noite de lua nova, se tornam mais óbvias as luzes verdes ao pé de palmeiras-babaçu na região do município de Altos, no Piauí. São os cog...

These glow-in-the-dark mushrooms might look like something from a 1960s black-light poster, but the luminous fungus Neonothopanus gardneri...

Wer sich in einer mondlosen Nacht tief durch das Unterholz eines Laubwaldes kämpft, kann mit etwas Glück ein vermeintlich unheimliches Scha...