When I first saw a sea sapphire I thought I was hallucinating. The day had been anything but normal, but this part will always stand…
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Author: RR Helm
RR Helm is a postdoc studying sea anemones and jellyfish at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Scientists use electricity, drugs, to uncover the secret world of jellyfish
Researchers have announced that, thanks to a whole slew of amazing science gadgets, they can now control the jellyfish life cycle, causing mini-jellyfish blooms in the lab…
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Creation of the world’s first Peanut Butter and Jellyfish
Ladies and gentlemen, I could not make this up if I tried. I owe my thanks to Wyatt Patry for sharing this study with me,…
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Worst-case scenario thinking and Fukushima radiation
This isn’t a map of radiation, it’s a map of wave estimated hight after the Tohuku Tsunami. So why is there so much outrage and…
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This vampire’s surprising secret
Vampire squid–with cloudy blue eyes, a blood red body, and barbed arms– may be the deep sea’s most frightening creature, but according to a new…
View More This vampire’s surprising secretComb jellies, not sponges, may be your most distant animal relative
For over a hundred years scientists have assumed that sponges (yep, the animal that inspired your kitchen sponge), are our most distant animal relative. And why…
View More Comb jellies, not sponges, may be your most distant animal relativeThis may be the ocean’s most horrifying monster (and you’ve probably never heard of it)
When I first learned about rhizocephalan barnacles I lost my appetite. I was taking a parasitology course, and even though I’d developed a thick skin, something…
View More This may be the ocean’s most horrifying monster (and you’ve probably never heard of it)Jellyfish go to space, say it was “meh, kinda sucky”
Why send jellies to space? Well, because it’s awesome (true for anything in space), but mostly because of little crystals jellies keep in their bodies,…
View More Jellyfish go to space, say it was “meh, kinda sucky”Jelly killing machine tested in Korea
I hate watching jellies suffer, and this is my personal version of Hell: These killing machines are called the Jellyfish Elimination Robotic Swarm, or JEROS,…
View More Jelly killing machine tested in KoreaSometimes you just gotta punch deep-sea squid with a toilet brush
Nothing makes my day like scientists attaching a toilet bowl cleaner to an ROV in order to prank some squid. Watch them scare the crap…
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