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 ...

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 ...

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 ...