The Marine Biodiversity Hub is massive project aimed at understanding Australian marine biodiversity. They publish a blog daily called 'Blogging the Abbys' that is rich with science explained simply and stories from thousands of meters below the surface. In this post, the researchers talk about what they find in the mud from the bottom of the ocean.

A group of scientists have discovered what causes fungi to glow in the dark. It turns out that it is a very similar process to what fireflies and angler fish use. Another case of convergent evolution, the idea that unrelated organisms can evolve to have similar characteristics.