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Thursday 29 November 2012

Sea of Stars, Maldives

Pinpricks of light on the shore seem to mirror stars above on Vaadhoo Island in the Maldives.
The biological light, or bioluminescence, in the waves is the product of marine microbes called phytoplankton, and now scientists think they know how some of these life-forms create their brilliant blue glow.


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