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What sea slugs can teach us about organ transplants

10 May 2025 9:00 am

The ability of species of nudibranch to incorporate the cells of completely separate species could have profound implications for humanity, says Drew Harvell

The Lion’s Mane, the Firework and terrible jellyfish jokes: the year’s best children’s books

30 November 2024 9:00 am

Contemporary authors, including Rick Riordan, Kate di Camillo, Mark Forsyth and Michael Stavaric, share shelf space with welcome reprints, including the ever-terrifying Struwwelpeter

With the all-encompassing model of Moby-Dick behind him, Hoare presents us with a vast and billowing medley of marinaria

Spirits from the vasty deep…

29 July 2017 9:00 am

‘The sea defines us, connects us, separates us,’ Philip Hoare has written. His prize-winning Leviathan, then a collection of essays…

… trailing strands in all directions

29 July 2017 9:00 am

Letters of Intent — letters of the intense. Keen readers of Cynthia Ozick (are there any other kind?) will of…