Here's how to light up your living room with glowing marine plankton

Microbes make our lives better in countless ways. They are the reason yogurt and cheese taste delicious. These tiny beings also fight deadly diseases -- in fact, they made penicillin, the "wonder drug" that has saved millions of lives, possible. They even feed on waste and turn it into fertilizer. Now, microorganisms could light up our living rooms. A company called BioPop is using dinoflagellates -- marine plankton that rely on sunlight and, when stirred, emit blue-green light called biolumines...