Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the Dabiri Lab, researchers are embedding microelectric controllers into jellyfish, creating "biohybrid" devices. For years, ...

These are no ordinary jellyfish. Under the care of mechanical engineer Nicole Xu and her team, these creatures are being turned into something new: living ocean explorers. They’ve been fitted with ...

NASA once sent over 2,000 jellyfish into space to study how gravity affects biological development. The unusual experiment ...

When it comes time to migrate, Queensland University of Technology research has found how a free-living coral ignores the classic advice and goes straight towards the light. The research—led by Dr.

If you’ve ever visited an Israeli beach during jellyfish season and watched a swarm of graceful jellies float through the sea, you might think that they’ve found real inner peace, casually drifting ...

University of Colorado Boulder Professor Nicole Xu is developing biohybrid robotic jellyfish by integrating tiny microelectronic systems into the live animals. Xu has about 15 to 20 moon jellyfish in ...

For years, science fiction has promised a future filled with robots that can swim, crawl and fly like animals. In one research lab at Caltech, what once felt like distant imagination is becoming ...

In a dark laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder, soft pulses of light dance across the surface of a large aquarium. Inside, moon jellyfish move in slow, hypnotic patterns. Their clear, bell ...