Most of us feel, or at least understand, that primordial fear of the dark. This comes from a past when larger and nastier animals roamed the nighttime landscape, and the light of a bright fire was the ...

Power's out and in a pinch to create some lighting ASAP? Don't panic (yes, I know, easier said than done when the world suddenly becomes pitch-black and eerily quiet) — with these makeshift lighting ...

Best for: making the art—not the light source—the focus “Pin spotlights that direct light onto individual artworks is a great way of illuminating them,” says Mishaan. These ceiling fixtures can be ...

This story appears in the March 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Watch. Steven Haddock, one of the world experts on life-forms that make light, is about to nudge the animal with a glass ...

Source: Corie Howell, photographer/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 To take something lightly implies not much caring about it. Or not giving it much weight. Or dismissing its significance. And when you take something ...

From shallow reefs to pitch-black depths, the ocean is alive with sparkling lights. Fish, squid, clams and plankton have found a wide range of ways to glow, shimmer and flash, lighting up the dark ...