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 ...

If you’re the type of person who looks for scorpions, rather than runs screaming at the thought of them, then you’re in luck. Scorpions are easy to find. Just go into the desert in the middle of the ...

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 ...

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 ...