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Israeli researchers decipher how jellyfish shoot poisoned arrows The Jerusalem Post Uri Shavit of the Technion's Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, “the jellyfish attacks its prey or its enemy by injecting toxic material by thousands of microscopic syringes located on each of its arms. The jellyfish belongs to the family ... |
PBS NewsHour | 6 things you may not know about jellyfish PBS NewsHour NewsHour science producers Nsikan Akpan and Julia Griffin recently took a trip to Baltimore to speak with jellyfish expert Jennie Janssen, assistant curator of the Blue Wonders exhibit at the National Aquarium. Here are six little-known facts she wants ... |
Miami New Times | Video: Behind the Scenes at Miami's Frost Science Museum ... Miami New Times There's plenty to explore at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, which opened last month in downtown Miami. But the centerpiece of the museum is ... |
Quartz | In honor of Cephalopod Week, here are eight fantastic facts about octopuses and their ilk Quartz We're in the midst of Cephalopod Week, the fourth annual celebration of octopuses, cuttlefish, nautiluses, and squid launched by the podcast Science Friday in answer to Discovery Channel's Shark Week. Unlike that marketing juggernaut, which long ago ... |
Mother Nature Network (blog) | A glowing invasion of 'fire bodies' is underway in the Pacific Mother Nature Network (blog) Bizarre, gelatinous, and glowing jellyfish-like organisms known as a pyrosomes are showing up in massive numbers never before recorded off the U.S. West Coast. And marine scientists are completely stumped as to why. "It's really weird," Jennifer Fisher ... |
Growing Produce | How Scientists Are Defeating the Citrus Psyllid with Genetics Growing Produce Researchers have inserted a gene from a green jellyfish into citrus. You can see where the virus has gone in the plant and introduced the jelly fish gene by peeling back the bark in a dark room and shining it with a UV light. You can see the infected ... |
AroundtheO | A UO grad student is on the trail of a weird jellyfish invasion AroundtheO In a two-week trip from San Francisco to Newport, Sorensen and other scientists got a close-up look at a lot of pyrosomes. These strange, small, jelly-like, tubular organisms are common in temperate water, but their numbers are growing and interrupting ... |
PhillyVoice.com | They're baaaack: Clinging jellyfish return to New Jersey coastline ... PhillyVoice.com Remember those tiny, clinging jellyfish that invaded the Jersey Shore coastline last summer? The species whose venomous sting left a grown man hospitalized ... |
Smithsonian | Forget What You've Heard About the Pee Cure, Here's How to Really Fix a Jellyfish Sting Smithsonian “When I first started doing this research I was surprised that a lot of this advice doesn't really come from science,” says Christie Wilcox, a venom scientist at the University of Hawai'i, and coauthor of two recent studies on jellyfish sting treatment ... |
Asbury Park Press | Clinging jellyfish reappear in the Shrewsbury Asbury Park Press “One of the objectives of this continued study is to determine to what degree these clinging jellyfish are becoming established in our waters,” said Dr. Gary Buchanan, director of DEP's Division of Science, Research and Environmental Health, in the ... Clinging Jellyfish Found In Monmouth County Waters ... |
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