A tiny Mediterranean jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, uses transdifferentiation to revert to a juvenile state and avoid death by aging, a process now studied for clues about human longevity. Hurricane ...

The Cambridge classicist Mary Beard became briefly notorious in 2009 (though not for the first or last time) when she was bleeped at length on NPR for quoting an ancient Roman poem—in Latin. “Catullus ...

What most of us would recognise as a jellyfish - the otherworldly, gelatinous aquatic animals renowned for their sting-filled tentacles - is actually just the final stage of these animals' life cycle.

Turritopsis dohrnii is the only metazoan able to rejuvenate repeatedly after its medusae reproduce, hinting at biological immortality and challenging our understanding of aging. We present and compare ...

Welcome to the World Death Clock, a dynamic visualization tool that not only calculates but vividly displays the rate of deaths across different time frames from yearly to per-second intervals. It is ...

Jellyfish have survived for over 500 million years, making them more ancient than the dinosaurs. Today these otherworldly creatures can be found around the world, from coastal shallows to the ocean ...

In “Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History,” science historian Oren Harman indulges our collective obsession and expands its frontiers in startling ways. Inspired by the impending birth of his own ...

Every year, World Jellyfish Day celebrates one of the ocean’s most enigmatic creatures. Graceful yet dangerous, simple yet complex, jellyfish have floated through Earth’s waters for over 500 million ...