Beginning in late 2020 news of various creatures demonstrating fluorescence under ultraviolet (UV) light began to inundate the internet. The trend began with what else but platypuses, then progressed ...

Under ultraviolet light, scorpions suddenly glow a bright neon green that looks completely unnatural. The effect comes from ...

I recently received a question about the use of technology in ecological research, which led to a discussion about blacklights. I wrote a column five years ago about a nighttime adventure in a ...

There are glow-in-the-dark scorpions living under rocks in Georgia and to prove it, state parks officials sent a ranger out at night to find some, armed with only a stick and an ultraviolet flashlight ...

When Randy Babb handed us flashlights in the middle of the night in the Sonoran Desert, we were not surprised. It was summer, and the desert sands had cooled down to the mid 90s, so we figured we ...

I recently received a question about the use of technology in ecological research, which led to a discussion about blacklights. I wrote a column five years ago about a nighttime adventure in a ...