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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...