A Marine Animal Defies the Limits of Immortality: A Fragment of Its Amputated Body Survives for Three Years in Seawater (opens in new tab)

From the reanimated corpse of Frankenstein’s monster to the detached hand known as Thing in the Addams Family, reanimated tissue is one of the most enduring images in science fiction. This archetype of life persisting beyond its original integrity appears to have, according to recent research, a concrete basis in nature: a group of scientists […]