The next time you spot a sea sponge, say “gesundheit!” Some sponges regularly “sneeze” to clear debris from their porous bodies. It’s “like someone with a runny nose,” says team member Sally Leys, an ...

Picture a sponge saturated with a fluid. You squeeze it, and the fluid is flushed out. But a sponge with a coating along its pores creates a network of micropores that retains the fluid, and any ...

Sponges aren’t just for cleaning dishes anymore. Scientists have found a way to super-charge sponges to help clean up micro-pollutants leftover from oil spills. In the United States alone, 15 billion ...

An everyday item in your kitchen is a better home for many diverse types of bacteria than a petri dish in a laboratory, new research revealed. A common sponge’s spatial partitioning – the way it’s ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The sponges of the future will do more than clean house. Picture this, for example: Doctors use a tiny sponge to soak up a drug and deliver it directly to a tumor. Chemists at a ...