The fascinating world of jellies

They’re stealthy, blubbery and perfectly capable of ruining a beach vacation. In recent years, a spike in invasive, stinging jellyfish swarms in the Mediterranean Sea has been scaring off tourists and affecting local marine life. In Tunisia, an EU-funded program is working with marine biologists and fishermen to combat the menace as well as make it lucrative to catch the creatures as Julia Henrichmann found in her TV report. But the jellies aren’t just a nuisance; they’re also real masters of adaptation, have a variety of uses in medicine and are even good at shutting down nuclear reactors as Jenny Seitz writes in our background article. And, they’re also surprisingly tasty - which is why we’ve even added a jellyfish recipe!