Measuring rocket pollution, how calcium induced an ice age, unpacking dark matter and a listener question about freezing flows ...

Imagine waking up to find your entire body gone — no torso, no limbs — just a head that has expanded, split into five ...

On an extended research visit to a friend’s lab in Tokyo, marine biologists Amy Johnson and Olaf Ellers witnessed something they’d never seen before. The starfish in Tatsuo Motokawa’s lab weren’t ...

If you’re able, watch this video. If not, allow me to explain. Two crown-of-thorns starfish are placed in separate tanks. Ordinary seawater is poured into one. In the other, seawater that a giant ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish can detect chemical cues in water (chemoreception), allowing them to respond to predators like the giant triton. The giant triton is one of the few natural predators of the ...

Starfish, also known as sea stars, are equipped with an almost alien-like anatomy. Despite lacking a brain, blood, and central nervous system, these odd creatures still have locomotive abilities. The ...

An optogenetic method for orchestrating the movement of starfish oocytes has been developed. A research team from MIT (MA, USA), the University of Munich (Germany) and the Whitehead Institute for ...

With a large variety of starfish in the ocean, there are many unique appearances that can be surprising. One example is the ...