sponges

For more than a century, biologists have wondered what the earliest animals were like when they first arose in the ancient oceans over half a billion years ago. Searching among today's most…

There's something very satisfying about working in a clean and organised kitchen, and by now, much has been said about how to keep it that way. But have you ever wondered what happens to…

Sneezing out mucus may be one of the oldest ways for organisms to get rid of unwanted waste. A group of researchers found that sponges, one of the oldest multicellular organisms in…

A human enzyme converts chemicals produced by marine sponges and related synthetic derivatives into cell-killing compounds, shows a study published today in eLife. The discovery suggests…

PHILADELPHIA — Nancy Damato walked past a garbage can the other day and caught a whiff of decaying banana peel."That was really great," she said.She was not being sarcastic.…

Little food reaches the depths below the permanently ice-covered Arctic Ocean, because light limits the productivity of algae. However, scientists from Bremen, Bremerhaven and Kiel now…

Stretching for nearly 80 miles across the seafloor of the central Arctic, the Langseth Ridge is craggy, barren, and generally inhospitable. And it should be: Unlike more productive oceans,…

As you read these lines the highly sophisticated biological 'machine' that is your brain is at work. The human brain is made up of approximately 86 billion neurons and controls not only our…