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Gastrophysicists Are Using an Audiovisual Experience to Make Jellyfish More Appetizing

Jellyfish are emerging as a sustainable seafood option, but can Westerners be convinced to indulge in this tasteless delicacy?

Jul 8, 2019 | 700 words, about 3 minutes

Dairy Farming at Sea

In the Netherlands, an experimental floating farm promises to reduce emissions and increase food security.

Jul 3, 2019 | 1,100 words, about 5 minutes

A Pending Shift in a Prominent Shipping Lane Will Be Used to Study Noise Pollution

When some 80,000 ships are sent on a different path to the Baltic Sea in 2020, researchers will be watching to see how porpoises respond.

Jun 20, 2019 | 900 words, about 4 minutes

Putting Names to Fishers’ Unidentified Sharks

Most sharks and rays caught in the Mediterranean are not identified to a species level, which hampers conservation efforts.

Jun 13, 2019 | 550 words, about 2 minutes

Where Whales and Plastic Meet

Scientists cruised into Iceland’s remote cold waters to find out why whales are eating so much plastic.

Jun 10, 2019 | 1,100 words, about 5 minutes

unmanned surface vehicle used in the XPRIZE competition

How a Far-Flung Group of Scientists Claimed the Ocean Discovery XPRIZE

Advances made to win XPRIZE will help with the quest to map the seafloor—an effort with scientific and industrial appeal.

Jun 5, 2019 | 1,000 words, about 5 minutes

A young Harbour Seal (Phoca vitulina) on the beach of Rottumerplaat

Reassessing Seal Rescue

The Netherlands is trying to do something new when it comes to rescuing “stranded” seals: less.

Apr 16, 2019 | 4,900 words, about 25 minutes

Lumpsucker or lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus, eating salmon louses, Lepeophtheirus salmonis, from Atlantic salmon, Salmon salar, on salmon farm.

Parasite-Eating Lumpfish Are Being Put to Work, but First They Need to Be Kept Alive

Scientists are experimenting with anesthetic to prevent tiny lumpfish from dying as they’re transported from farm to farm.

Apr 11, 2019 | 800 words, about 4 minutes

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