Small choices can make a big impact, especially when it comes to sustainability. In an eco-friendly kitchen, the right sponge ...

You can pick up a synthetic sponge for just a few dollars. But a natural sea sponge, hand-harvested from the Mediterranean seafloor, could set you back $30. Harvesting these sponges is dangerous ...

Sponges are full of holes and pockets – each providing a niche for a community of microbes to settle down in. Lingchong You, a synthetic biologist at Duke University, and his team, used ...

Palau'amine, isolated by the Scheuer group 3 from a marine sponge off the coast of Palau — a small island in the western Pacific ocean — was first described in 1993, and may fall into this ...

Brightly coloured, synthetic bath buffs and kitchen scrubbers are a familiar sight, but growing your own natural sponges will provide you with a supply of more planet-friendly alternatives. The origin ...

For the sponges, this allows them to maintain a high mechanical stability while absorbing nutrients from the water. The same principles can be applied to synthetic materials for cleaning up oil spills ...

Beneath the ocean's surface, simple marine animals called sea sponges grow delicate glass skeletons that are as intricate as they are strong. These natural structures are made of a material called ...