Insanely Popular: MBL Squid Research/Rap Video Goes Viral
Dancing Woods Hole squid skin became an Internet sensation this week in the form of “Insane in the Chromatophores,” a bass-thumping music video by Greg Gage of Backyard Brains, who made it while...
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E-Paper Technology Takes Cue from Nature
What could a device like the Amazon Kindle possibly have in common with a cuttlefish? Both depend on reflective surfaces to vividly communicate information. For tablets and other e-devices, synthetic...
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Sensing the Light, But Not to See
Among the animals that are appealing “cover models” for scientific journals, lancelets don’t spring readily to mind. Slender, limbless, primitive blobs that look pretty much the same end to end,...
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Study of Dragonfly Prey Detection Wins PNAS Cozzarelli Prize for Scientific...
Paloma T. Gonzalez-Bellido, who is now a postdoctoral scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), and colleagues from Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Minnesota, and Union...
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New Insight on Cuttlefish Decision-Making During Adaptive Camouflage
Some people prefer strong vertical lines in their clothing over horizontal ones, as they can appear slimming. As for cuttlefish? According to a new MBL study, when these marine creatures adaptively...
View Article@MBL: Spring Forward
A thin crescent of ice was still on Eel Pond when Pablo Correa came to the MBL last March to begin shooting a video. Correa’s visit was exploratory: He knew he wanted to make a short documentary about...
View ArticleThe Disappearing Cuttlefish Appears in The New York Times
A whimsical, enlightening video about cuttlefish camouflage by Jacob Gindi, a senior and biology major at Brown University, appeared in The New York Times last week. Gindi had encountered live...
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