Bioluminescent life

Ben Bassett reveals how night fishing under the glow of city street lights can produce some exciting and unexpected results

Fireflies are kept inside webs for as long ...

STANDING in the forest at 11 p.m. on a Scottish island, I feel like I’ve gone through the looking glass. The grass is purple, the trees look like they’re sheeted in aluminium, the leaves are red and t

Amazing answers to your curious questions

From strange lights in the sky to rocks that spontaneously glide across the ground, the mysteries scientists are trying to finally crack

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel