It's very hard to kill a purple sea urchin. Starve it for years, and it will fall dormant on the ocean floor, devoid of any flesh — just an empty, spiky shell awaiting its next meal.

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 ...

GOLETA, Calif. — Draped atop pillows of sushi rice or displayed in its forebodingly spiny seven-inch shell, the ubiquity of red sea urchin at high-end sushi restaurants and raw bars is a symbol ...

I worked a tool that reminded me of a guillotine until the urchin shell split in half. Removing the mouth exposed the prize: five plump tongues. The uni was custardy, sweet, briny, light.

Hundreds of “sea potatoes”—actually the empty shells of a species of sea urchin—mysteriously washed up on Cornish beach last weekend Katherine J. Wu - Correspondent ...

Sea urchin spurs new ideas for lightweight materials Date: November 10, 2015 Source: Faculty of Science - University of Copenhagen Summary: Materials researchers love sea creatures. Mother-of ...

A sea urchin wearing a 3D printed cowboy hat. Wilson Souza Emma Verling, who holds a doctorate in marine ecology from University College Cork, described to Newsweek how sea urchins mount hats ...

Run cold water over the insides of the urchin. Hopefully there’ll be sunny orange uni, but there will also be guts and maybe some small rocks and sea veggies that the urchin was munching on — and ...