The team studied the motion of egg cells produced by starfish—an organism that scientists have long used as a classic model for understanding cell growth and development. The researchers focused ...

Wearing overly tight protective braided hairstyles or back-to-back high ponytails can come at a cost—thinning edges and even bald spots. We’ve all been there, staring in the mirror at the ...

Deep in the underwater world, animals like starfish use unusual ways to escape predators. In an act called autotomy, starfish shed one or more of their limbs to flee their hunters. The severed, ...