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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...