NASA’s SpaceX launch lights up the sky with a giant glowing jellyfish - Science Daily

NASA released photos of a glowing, jellyfish-shaped formation created when exhaust plumes from the SpaceX CRS-35 cargo mission caught the sun's rays.

A new study has found that adaptive molecular convergence—the process by which distantly related or unrelated species evolve the same genomic changes—is not as rare as previously thought.

Tiny sea spiders in Canada's Salish Sea are giving scientists a rare glimpse into an often-overlooked part of coastal life. Two of the creatures are entirely new to science. Some sea spiders feed on hydroids, including jellyfish, by draining their fluids through a proboscis.

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