This jellyfish, which is able to swim freely, has been made with silicone polymer and muscle cells obtained from a rat heart. According to John Dabiri, a co-author of the study, the main difference between this creature and a real jellyfish ‘is that the real jellyfish can go and get nutrients and ours can’t.’ The …Continue Reading
Remember the picture of the ‘smiling web burrfish’? It was one of the winners of the 2011 amateur underwater photography contest of The Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science. This beautiful picture of a Chrysaora quinquecirrha, or sea nettle, is among the 2012 winners, and was made by Todd Aki, from Florida. Check out …Continue Reading
Scientists don’t know what it is or where the image was captured. The video was uploaded to YouTube two weeks ago, but experts are still trying to figure out what it is. The suggestions are that it is either a rare jellyfish or a whale placenta, but there are aspects of it that don’t fit …Continue Reading
It’s a small robot powered by hydrogen that resembles the movements of a jellyfish. According to Dr Yonas Tadesse, who leads the development of the robot, ‘this is the first successful powering of an underwater robot using external hydrogen as a fuel source.’ Tadesse, Y., Villanueva, A., Haines, C., Novitski, D., Baughman, R., & Priya, …Continue Reading
Blooms of giant Nomura’s jellyfish are causing trouble in Japanese waters. In recent years, the swarms of jellyfish are growing so thick that they hampered fishing crews, forced shut downs at power plants and even caused a boat to capsize. Biologists argue that the massive increase in the population of jellyfish is a consequence of …Continue Reading
