A sponge made from a fusion of cotton fibre and squid bone could help to clear some of the world's microplastic pollution ...

The sponge skeleton data dates to 1700, which is longer than reliable human records. That gives scientists a longer reference point to evaluate what temperatures were like before fossil fuels ...

Humans are by no means alone in the search for more sustainable materials. Nature, too, has been “working” on the problem of sustainability, and it’s been at it for a great deal longer. In a new study ...

It can be tricky to see sponges as animals, stationary and plant-like as they are, but they represent some of the ...