Kongjian Yu, the son of a rice farmer who tended terraced water-filled rice fields in China, is now a world-renowned leading voice on what he calls 'sponge planet:' Sponge cities, sponge ...

Belinda the sea sponge has a lot going on for an animal that can't go anywhere. Canadian researchers have used four years of time-lapse footage from the sea floor of British Columbia to paint ...

Twenty-three metres below the surface of Barkley Sound, a sea sponge named Belinda is telling researchers about changing ocean conditions. “Honestly, it was very opportunistic,” Dominica ...

The trick to getting a sponge cake to rise is to mix the wet ingredients together before gently folding in the dry ingredients to keep air in the mixture. The creaming method, in which butter and ...

Spoon the mixture gently into the cake tin and bake for 30 minutes, or until risen (when cooked the sponge should bounce back when pressed lightly). Transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool.