Will we soon be forced to eat jellyfish? Since the beginning of the 2000s, these gelatinous creatures have invaded many of the world's seas, like the Japan Sea, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, etc. ...

Biology - Ecology

May 06, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

A research team led by Cornell University's Creative Machines Lab has created a computer algorithm that can be used to witness virtual creatures evolving their squishy, muscle-like features in order to teach ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Apr 23, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 3

The deep oceans have yielded many mysteries that have puzzled people for centuries, from the giant squid to huge jellyfish that look like UFOs. To that list add a fish with totally transparent blood.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 05, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0

Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers have unveiled a life-like, autonomous robotic jellyfish the size and weight of a grown man, 5 foot 7 inches in length and weighing 170 pounds.

Electronics - Robotics

Mar 28, 2013 3.8 / 5 (5) 3 |

Marine biologists say they have proof that excessive trawling of small fish species leads to proliferation of jellyfish, a worsening phenomenon whose causes have been unclear.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 19, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 2

A surge in jellyfish blooms over the past decade has spawned similar blooms of public fascination with these sea drifters and their apparent saturation of our oceans. Images of fish nets and nuclear-plant ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 19, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Once a month, on the darkest nights near the new moon, otherworldly beings emerge from Pacific Ocean depths and drift onto the beaches of Hawaii.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 25, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

A weird marine creature that lived 500 million years ago at a time of explosive growth in Earth's biodiversity could be a forerunner of worms and molluscs, a study published on Thursday said.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jan 17, 2013 3.8 / 5 (6) 0

Scientists have cast doubt on the widely held perception that there has been a global increase in jellyfish.

Biology - Ecology

Dec 31, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 0 |

The seawater in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, and Norway's coastal waters and fjords is gradually getting darker. Researchers are observing signs similar to those from overproduction of organic compounds. ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Nov 19, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Man-made structures such as harbours, tourist facilities, oil rigs and aquaculture farms provide ideal sanctuaries for jellyfish polyps to flourish and may explain an apparent increase in jellyfish ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 07, 2012 not rated yet 0

Excitation of neurons depends on the selected influx of certain ions, namely sodium, calcium and potassium through specific channels. Obviously, these channels were crucial for the evolution of nervous systems ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jul 26, 2012 not rated yet 1

Using recent advances in marine biomechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering, a team of researchers at Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have turned inanimate ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jul 22, 2012 4.7 / 5 (11) 15 |

(Phys.org) -- Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on a multi-university, nationwide project for the U.S. Navy that one day will put life-like autonomous robot jellyfish in waters around ...

Technology - Engineering

May 29, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 0 |

The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and a committee of scientists from around the world announced their picks for the top 10 new species described in 2011. This ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 23, 2012 not rated yet 0