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Why Some Mushrooms Glow in the Dark

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A team of scientists recently created some fake, glowing mushrooms and scattered them in a Brazilian forest in hopes of solving an ancient mystery: Why do some fungi emit light?

The question goes back all the way to Aristotle, who is the first person known to have wondered about this, according …Read More

Source: NPR Science – ingested into KQED

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