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Life Gets a Little Easier for Reindeer, Tsunami-Hit Lands
Caribou Cameron Hayne (GNU Free Documentation License) I shouldn't have given all the props to chicks for being able to count. Turns out mosquitofish -- freshwater fish found in north and central...
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Eels Disappearing? Inconceivable!
European Eel Ron Offermans (GNU Free Documentation License) There must be too many local fishermen out for pleasure cruises at night through eel-infested waters. European eels are in crisis, their...
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Fifty Years Ago, Fish Were Bigger; Fifty Years From Now, They'll Be Gone
Trophy Fish, Key West, 1958 courtesy of Monroe County Library, via Census of Marine LifeGreat white whales. Schools of fish so thick they slowed boats. Sea monsters that could swallow a sailor whole....
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Robot Jellyfish Swims Just Like The Real Thing
Jellybot Sung-Weon Yeom and Il-Kwon Oh Even though a jellyfish is 90 percent water, it moves at about 40 mph. Jellyfish use their bell -- the top portion, above the tentacles -- to create a jet that...
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Giant Free-Roving Robotic Cages Could Be the Healthy Future of Fish Farming
Aquapod Fish Farm Someday remote controlled motors could direct fish farms like this around the ocean. via Ocean Farm Technologies, Inc.With over 70 percent of the world's natural fisheries taxed...
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The Future Will Be Tastier: Scientists Discover Key To Year-Round Soft Shell...
Great NY Noodle Town Crab Almost as good as Phoenix Garden. Whether they're tossed with Old Bay and served in a sandwich, fried at Great NY Noodle Town, or sauteed as a base for pasta, soft shell...
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Japanese Astronaut to Serve First Sushi in Space
Soichi Noguchi courtesy Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi has successfully lifted off from Baikonur Space Center on the steppes of Kazakhstan, bringing with him the...
View ArticleVideo: Chinese Vending Machine Sells Live Hairy Crabs
Never a part of the world to let common sense stand in the way of a good vending machine, China has now invented a machine that, for the equivalent of a couple of dollars, pops out a live crab. The...
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Stretchy, Sticky Mussel Fibers Inspire New Types of Tough Waterproof Adhesives
Mussel The elastic gel stuck to this mussel was created in the laboratory. University of Chicago De-bearded mussels are not only delicious — soon, they might improve medical implants. Scientists can...
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Why Sex With Creatures from the Future Is a Bad Idea
Brine Shrimp Hans HillewaertWhen time travel finally becomes possible, we might want to think twice about getting it on. According to a new study on tiny shrimp (Artemia franciscana), sex with...
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Japanese Scientists Make A Crab Transparent
Crab Becomes Transparent Md. Iftekhar Shams, Masaya Nogi, Lars A. Berglund and Hiroyuki Yano In the latest issue of Soft Matter, a team of biochemists from Kyoto University show off their latest...
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Deformities in Gulf Seafood Found After BP Oil Spill
Deformed Gulf Shrimps On the left is a Gulf shrimp with growths, while on the right are a group of shrimps without either eyes or eye sockets. Left: Keath Ladner. Right: Erika Blumenfeld/Al Jazeera Al...
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PopSci's Friday Lunch: a Can of Surströmming With Harold McGee
Surströmming Paul Adams When Popular Science was acquired by Sweden's Bonnier Corporation in 2007, some people thought we'd be eating surströmming, the legendary Scandinavian delicacy of fish left to...
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Help Oceanographers Comb the Ocean Floor From the Comfort of Your Screen
Hidden Treasures of the Deep Public contributors will be able to identify fish, scallops and other organisms in each image. Here's a scallop and a monkfish, for example. Users can also provide basic...
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It's Unlikely That You Have Ever Really Eaten Snapper Sashimi
What Is That Snapper Really? Oceana Oceana, an organization dedicated to ocean conservation, has bought over 1,200 samples of fish from restaurants and stores around the country, and submitted them to...
View ArticleJapanese Astronaut to Serve First Sushi in Space
Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi has successfully lifted off from Baikonur Space Center on the steppes of Kazakhstan, bringing with him the first sushi in space. "We had a…
View ArticleVideo: Chinese Vending Machine Sells Live Hairy Crabs
Never a part of the world to let common sense stand in the way of a good vending machine, China has now invented a machine that, for the equivalent of a couple of dollars,…
View ArticleStretchy, Sticky Mussel Fibers Inspire New Types of Tough Waterproof Adhesives
De-bearded mussels are not only delicious — soon, they might improve medical implants. Scientists can now reproduce the sticky gloop that mussels use to anchor themselves to…
View ArticleWhy Sex With Creatures from the Future Is a Bad Idea
When time travel finally becomes possible, we might want to think twice about getting it on. According to a new study on tiny shrimp (Artemia franciscana), sex with partners…
View ArticleJapanese Scientists Make A Crab Transparent
In the latest issue of Soft Matter, a team of biochemists from Kyoto University show off their latest creation: a crab shell that came from a normal crab, but which has been…
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