TURN ON TO BIOLUMINESCENCE.(What's Happening)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: June 4, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: DOREE ARMSTRONG Special to the P-I

Most people know that fireflies have a glowing abdomen that looks really pretty at night, but did you know that the decapod shrimp actually vomits light into the face of predators so it can get away?

That's just one of the fascinating tidbits children and adults will learn about the science of bioluminescence at Pacific Science Center's newest exhibit, "Glow: Living Lights."

"Glow" is on a 15-city tour, and it's the first museum exhibition to explore bioluminescence, an organism's ability to produce its own light. Since an ...

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