Sponges, which are often warm, wet, and contain traces of old food, are ideal breeding grounds for those bacteria. The goal of the new analysis wasn't to find pathogens, which make people sick ...

Sponges, which are often warm, wet, and contain traces of old food, are ideal breeding grounds for those bacteria,” explained Business Insider. So how often should you replace your kitchen sponge?

Salmonella, E.coli and Staphylococcus aureus can survive for up to 16 days on a sponge's surface, according to a 2020 study from the American Society for Microbiology. Mold, yeast, and other ...

"The sponges probably swayed in the ocean currents in less than 20 meters of water filtering organic carbon out of the water for food." ... asymmetric (not any other animal group), ...

The sponges, typically 4"x4" or 18"x18" laparotomy pads, are used in many surgeries, mostly chest, abdomen or gynecological, to soak up fluids in the surgical field, said Staff Sgt. Kyle Newell ...

So the scientists collected 18 sponge specimens across multiple sites at Guam during 2014 and 2015. Preliminary analysis revealed that the sponges belonged to four different evolutionary clades.

Sponges filter so much water that, for example, the community at Karasik can sieve almost the entire 600 meters of ocean above it every year. And though supposedly immobile, some of them can crawl.

Though we don't have corals that build reefs on Staten Island's borders, sponges still provide shelter for many small animals. To keep from washing away in the current, sponges anchor themselves ...

By using data from Amazon to assess monthly sales, and assuming that all sponges were worn down by roughly 10 percent, the team calculated that roughly 1.55 trillion microplastic fibers could be ...

Drill, Baby, Drill: Sponges Bore Into Shells Twice as Fast in Acidic Seawater In acidic water, drilling sponges damage scallops twice as quickly, worsening the effects of ocean acidification ...

“We thought sponges settled when juveniles, then had to put up with conditions where they settled,” Autun Purser, a deep-sea ecologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute at the Helmholtz Center ...