As the summer break approaches, the National Museum of the Philippines on Tuesday cautioned Filipinos not to pick up the flower urchin (Toxopneustes pileolus) found on the country’s beaches since its ...

Harbor porpoises, easily seen from shorelines around the Salish Sea, are telling an encouraging story of environmental recovery.

Scientists found that Australian sea lion pups may learn how to hunt by watching their mothers during ocean foraging trips.

Naturally occurring porous ceramic structure inside sea urchin spines can generate measurable electrical voltage in response to water contact.

Researchers have found an unusual 3D printable material that generates electricity in flowing water. The researchers found ...

The Echinus Geyser—a Yellowstone hot spring that periodically blasts out hot water—has erupted for the first time since 2020.

Abstract: The deep-sea pipe plug is critical equipment in emergency maintenance operations. Existing deep-sea pipeline plugs have issues such as excessively large axial dimensions and being limited to ...

Study reveals sea urchin spines' gradient architecture converts mechanical motion to electrical signals, informing designs ...

Abstract: Addressing the challenges in heterogeneous multi-agent decision-making for complex sea-air cooperative search and rescue (SAR) missions, such as dimensionality explosion, poor policy ...

Nature does it again! The natural world has a knack for giving us the blueprints for some useful technologies, and the humble sea urchin is the latest contributor. Scientists have designed a new class ...

Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert is in the Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA, and the Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, ...

A study by the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences and the University of Bonn has shown that pH value is crucial for sperm motility in sea urchins and salmon. An increase in pH ...