Glowing Frog on a Glowing Mushroom Wins Science Photo Competition

A photo titled “Glowing Frog on a Glowing Mushroom” won the People’s Choice Award at the Beaker Street Science Photography Prize 2024 in Tasmania. The photo shows a blue-glowing tree frog sitting on a bioluminescent funnel-shaped mushroom known as a ghost fungus. The frog’s blue glow is caused by biofluorescence – its chemical skin absorbs […]

American held for 8 years in notorious Iranian prison tells of ordeal

Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American citizen, was detained in Iran in 2015 and imprisoned for 8 years until his release in 2023 in a prisoner exchange deal between the US and Iran. He speaks to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in his first interview since being released. He describes the brutal conditions he endured in Iran’s Evin prison, […]