Someday, optical communications and high-speed computing might owe their success to a little ocean creature: the sea urchin. Materials scientists have fabricated a photonic crystal using a piece of ...

Materials researchers love sea creatures. Mother-of-pearl provokes ideas for smooth surfaces, clams inspire gluey substances, shark's skin is used to develop materials that reduce drag in water, and ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Sea urchins can be pretty intimidating to the uninitiated (picture a ...

The pointy shell of sea urchins hides a remarkably complex neural network that resembles the brains of vertebrates, new research suggests.

Building on a concept first introduced by the late Danish engineer Ture Wester, the designers have created a minimalist modular system that is lightweight and self-supporting, expansive, and yet ...

Nominated for one of the best fish tacos in U-T San Diego’s BEST Readers Poll, Poppa’s Fresh Fish Company is better known for serving live sea urchin at local farmer’s markets. Chris Cantore samples ...

A sea urchin is a study in contradictions: tenacious and spiky on the outside, vulnerable and velvety on the inside. With a beauty both fragile and fierce, it can burrow for decades into rock, but die ...