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If you're confused about how best to treat a jellyfish sting, you're not alone. Even the experts disagree. So, here's the best advice we have.
How flawed citation practices can perpetuate scientific ideas even before they've been fully established as true.
Despite a fearsome reputation, it seems Australia's wildlife doesn't scare away tourists.
There's a simple reason why Australia isn't the most lethal nation in the world.
We know a lot about the potential negative effects of ocean acidification on marine creatures. But might some species actually benefit? The answer is yes, but this isn't necessarily a good thing.
Blue bottles have been washing up on beaches lately, but what exactly are they? And are you really supposed to pee on their stings?
In a changing climate, ocean populations sometimes rise and fall in unpredictable waves. Scientists, managers and fishers must make economically and ecologically sound decisions based on long-term outlooks.
Billions of small, jellyfish-like creatures known as “by-the-wind sailors” have washed ashore all along the west coast of North America this summer, from southern California to British Columbia. Images…
Even though a blue whale is much heavier than a tuna, the mammal consumes less energy per unit weight than the fish when…
A bloom of new jellyfish started appearing in the Gulf of Venice last autumn. They were first detected by a fisherman from Chioggia in north-east Italy when hundreds of the beautiful yellow species filled…
When I first saw a sea sapphire I thought I was hallucinating. The day had been anything but normal, but this part will always stand out. I had spent the afternoon on a small dingy off the coast of Durban…
For the people of northern Australia, dangerous jellyfish stings are all too common. But under changing ocean conditions, could more of these dangerous jellyfish be moving farther south along the Queensland…
Tens of thousands of farmed salmon are dead after a swarm of mauve stinger jellyfish swept through an open-ocean salmon farm in Ireland. Tourists in France and Spain must contend with these summer visitors…
What happens inside plant cells? How can we see proteins in living cells that aren’t even visible with a microscope? This was a problem in plant cell biology until the discovery of a fluorescent jellyfish…
Why send jellyfish to space? Well, because it’s awesome which is true of anything involving space. But mostly because of little crystals that they keep in their bodies, and what these crystals can tell…
Artificial structures such as jetties, oil rigs, pontoons and artificial reefs may be causing increased jellyfish blooms…
It seems that every day you read in the scientific literature and global media about the human destruction of our oceans, through impacts such as climate change, eutrophication, overfishing and urban sprawling…
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Associate Professor, Griffith University
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Ph.D. Candidate, Brown University
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Adjunct professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
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Associate Professor, Marine Biology & Ecology Research Group (MBERG), University of Southampton
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Professor of Tourism & Director, Centre for Tourism and Regional Opportunities, CQUniversity Australia
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Director, Clinical Toxicology Research Group, University of Newcastle
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PhD Student, Oxford Brookes University
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Postdoctoral fellow, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
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Professor of Zoology, University of Salento
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
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Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology
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Professor of Marine Biology, Plymouth University
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Research scientist, CSIRO
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Researcher at Scripps Insitution of Oceanography & Director of MarFishEco, University of California San Diego
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Head, Charles Campbell Toxinology Centre at the University of Papua New Guinea & Australian Venom Research Unit, University of Melbourne
