It can be hard to set the mood just right when it comes to lighting a room. Especially when it comes to finding, say, a calming glow perfect for reading and thinking about deep philosophical subjects.

Ornamental house plants with sustainably glowing leaves and flowers are now one step closer to reality, thanks to a breakthrough in which scientists leveraged the bioluminescent powers of mushrooms.

Fans of the "Avatar" movie will have long dreamed of lush jungles teeming with glowing plants. But fluorescent foliage may no longer be the stuff of science fiction, as scientists have found a way to ...

If you've ever wanted to live your life adrift amid a sea of gently glowing succulents, that dream just got a tiny step closer. A team of scientists at South China Agricultural University has managed ...

If we mention glowing plants, do you think of Homer Simpson pushing the wrong button at the Springfield Nuclear Plant? Or perhaps you think of something from a bad science fiction movie that slowly ...

Would you believe that 2014 will be the battleground for the world's first glowing plants for the home? It's true: Two long-running projects have almost simultaneously reached the point where their ...

What if you could read a book by the glowing light of a plant? Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are making that a reality. Specialized nanoparticles embedded into the leaves of ...

Let's peek into the science labs this week to see what gardening researchers have discovered lately that affects how we garden: Pennsylvania's newest nasty-invader bug is the spotted lanternfly, an ...

During the nearly three-hour ride that is Avatar, James Cameron builds a strange world filled with mountain banshees, sex tails, and forests pulsating with bioluminescence. If you’re a regular Jake ...

Right now, it’s just a fun way to get a conversation piece for your house, but the popular crowdfunding project of the moment is just the beginning of a new branch of science with exciting ...

These plants are glowin’ up. Scientists at MIT have succeeded in creating plants that light up for hours at a time. “The vision is to make a plant that will function as a desk lamp — a lamp that you ...