" We found... that their copulatory organs fluoresce."

“我们发现… … 它们的交配器官会发。”

So similar how scorpions fluoresce, just coincidentally.

这跟蝎子发如此相似，只是巧合。

Now, of course, we could see this because the patches were fluorescing in different colors.

当然，我们能够看到这个是因为这两块土地呈现不同颜色。

They are specks of a material which fluoresces.

它们是一种会发的物质的斑点。

But plants the world over are fluorescing as they photosynthesize.

但是当全世界的植物在进合作用时它们都在发。

At the conference, they were cagey about exactly what the fluorescing particles are made of.

在会议上，他们对粒子的确切成分守口如瓶。

[Derek] You've got 12 Hypotheses about why the scorpions fluoresce?

- [德里克] 你对蝎子发的原因有 12 种假设？

But scorpions aren't the only animals that fluoresce.

但蝎子并不是唯一会发的动物。

So it fluoresces in black light.

所以它在黑下会发。

Absent the gro-lights, some of the algae fluoresce in a range of cool-spectrum colors.

在没有 gro-lights 的情况下，一些藻类会发一系列冷谱颜色的。

I've got fluorescing cadmium green and azurite blue.

下显颜料中含铬和石青。

So our group helped pioneer a method, a technology, whereby we could tag nutrients with nanoparticles, fluorescing nanoparticles called quantum dots.

于是我们团队帮助开拓了一种方法，一种技术，用纳米颗粒标记营养物质，纳米颗粒叫做量子点。

And when you spot a scorpion, it's usually from pretty far away because they fluoresce really bright and it looks like toxic sludge green.

当你发现蝎子时，它通常来自很远的地方，因为它们发非常明亮的，看起来像有毒的污泥绿色。

A chemical that has another function that just happens to fluoresce.

一种化学物质， 具有另一种功能， 恰好能发。

There are plenty of chemicals that fluoresce.

有很多化学物质都能发。

You anted to know if the scorpions were fluorescing in order to attract insects.

你想知道蝎子是不是为了吸引昆虫而发。

I mean, we have internal bodily fluids that fluoresce.

我的意思是， 我们的体液会发。

If CRISPR finds Zika, The Cas enzyme cuts the virus and cuts the molecule holding the reporter, which makes it fluoresce.

如果 CRISPR 发现寨卡病毒，Cas 酶会切割病毒并切割携带报告基因的分子，使其发。

Whereas when UV light was present for the ones that can fluoresce, they reduced their activity levels.

而当紫外线照射到能发的细菌时，它们的活性水平就会降低。

I haven't seen it myself, but some that live at living caves they don't fluoresce but it's only like one very small group.

我没有亲眼见过， 但有些生活在活体洞穴中的蝎子不发， 但只有一小群蝎子。