Someday, optical communications and high-speed computing might owe their success to a little ocean creature: the sea urchin. Materials scientists have fabricated a photonic crystal using a piece of ...

Uni supplier UniFresco has introduced a new uni paste product to help reach other customers and markets, building on the success of its chemical-free sea urchin products.

You've probably spotted uni on Japanese menus or in high-end restaurants before. The edible portion of a sea urchin (it's technically the animal's, um, gonads, but don't let that deter you), it's a ...

Now that foie gras is just a delicious ghost of our culinary past, uni is the delicacy with top billing on every trend-conscious menu in L.A. It’s a strange food, when you think about it. How did ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. Sea urchin is the ingredient of the moment. While it was once confined to ...

The first time I tried sea urchin was at a French bistro about 20 years ago. A high-end call girl I was writing a story about egged me on: She thought I needed some sexing up. I was at first alarmed ...

Arbacia punctulata, the purple-spined sea urchin, is native to the western Atlantic Ocean along the eastern coast of the US and the Gulf of Mexico, where it usually lives on rock or shell substrates.