How Aequorea victoria turns blue light into green

A jellyfish turns a blue flash into green light

In the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, calcium makes a protein called aequorin give off a short blue flash. Another protein, green fluorescent protein, absorbs some of that energy and gives it off again as green light.

More Americans died in prison ships than were killed in battle

During the American Revolutionary War, more American prisoners died aboard British prison ships off Brooklyn’s Wallabout Bay than American troops were killed in all the war’s battlefield engagements combined.

Elizabeth I’s death was dated 1602 and 1603

Before England changed its calendar in the 1750s, the year began on 25 March. So Elizabeth I’s death on 24 March was counted as 1602 at the time, but historians date it to 1603 by modern convention.

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How Aequorea victoria turns blue light into green

A jellyfish turns a blue flash into green light

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