An international research team has developed a hybrid maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique for PV systems that operate under partial shading or rapidly changing atmospheric parameters. The ...

We all know about jellyfish, but have you ever heard of a sea salp? They are gelatinous and fascinating creatures living in the open ocean. Although they resemble jellyfish, sea salps have their own ...

Southern California paddleboarder Bill Clements was 3 miles offshore when he spotted something that looked more like a see-through floating spine than an actual animal. Clements was by himself ...

If you’ve been to a beach in the Grand Strand lately, you might have noticed thousands of little clear blobs scattered across the sand. But what are the colorless, gelatinous creatures? The strange ...

They’re small, jelly-looking and clustered in groups on the beach. But what are they? Clear, jelly-like plankton called salps have recently washed up on the beaches in Wildwood, but the swarms of ...

Salp bodies obscure the green coral below. At top, with tail, is a larvacean. Larvaceans build a gelatinous “house” about the size of a walnut that completely encloses their tiny bodies. The house ...

MONTEREY THIS WEEKED ....YOU PROBABLY SAW THOUSANDS OF THESE GUYS. THE MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM SAYS THESE ARE SALPS. SALPS KIND OF LOOK LIKE JELLYFISH... BUT THEY DON'T STING AND THEY ARE MORE CLOSELY ...

Humans continue to amplify global warming by emitting billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. A new study reveals that an ocean animal called a salp plays an outsize role in ...

This summer, a pair of kayakers in Orange County came across some extremely odd-looking creatures — gelatinous inch-long blobs, so transparent you could see their hearts beating, strung together in ...

Early one morning last week I was collecting specimens for the Oceanarium on the dock in Seabrook harbor and was astounded to find millions, possibly billions, of tiny ctenophores. They were comb ...