The city of Venice and its surrounding lagoon are irreversibly at the mercy of climate change. Rising sea levels threaten to submerge the island in the coming decades, as the system of flood barriers ...

This video explores the Venus girdle, a comb jelly known for its stunning rainbow shimmer deep beneath the ocean’s surface. Viewers learn how tiny rows of beating cilia create waves of shifting color ...

For more than 500 million years – well before dinosaurs ever thought of existing – jellyfish have floated through the world’s oceans. Today, 2,000 species of jellyfish have been discovered around the ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but usually over short distances across the DNA sequence, with the on/off switch ...

Scientists often encounter things beyond human comprehension. When studying jellyfish and their remarkable healing abilities, a team of scientists dealt with this very concept. When a thriving adult ...

At the time of this writing, the video (archived) had received more than 124,000 views. While we were unable to determine the creator of the video, it did not show a real jellyfish and was likely ...

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(CNN) — Late one summer night in 2023, Kei Jokura entered the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, excitedly carrying a blob in a beaker. The biologist had just come from the ...