Anna (Norris) Mitchell is a writer, editor, and photographer who loves capturing nature through her camera lens. Panellus stipticus is one of the brightest-glowing bioluminescent mushrooms on Earth.

Scientists have discovered what makes bioluminescent mushrooms glow, a phenomenon that occurs in around 80 different fungi species across the world. Most of the time, bioluminescence - light emission ...

Cassius Stevani has foraged for glow-in-the-dark fungi in remote rain forests for 17 years. Looking down at these bioluminescent fungi in a dark forest can often feel like gazing out over the lights ...

When is a mushroom more than just a mushroom? When it glows. It might sound like a psychedelic riddle, but when it comes to bioluminescent mushrooms, it’s reality. The glow-in-the-dark fungi have been ...

We’ve all seen the movie Avatar — it’s one of the finest pieces of cinematic art ever to grace the silver screen and nobody debates this — and if there’s one thing you’ll remember about the ...

Scientists now understand what makes bioluminescent mushrooms glow, which may pave the way to new possibilities for harnessing fungal bioluminescence in analytical and imaging technologies.

Glowing mushrooms are often associated with tropical environments, but they can also be found in Switzerland. In fact, Zurich ...

In 1840, renowned English botanist George Gardner reported a strange sight from the streets of Vila de Natividade in Brazil: A group of boys playing with a glowing object that turned out to be a ...

Why and how certain types of mushrooms glow has long confused scientists, but now they think they might have an answer. It appears that some fungi emit light to attract insects at night, which then ...