In the 1960s, neuroscientist Eric Kandel began a series of experiments on the California brown sea hare, a species of sea slug that looks as though it were dropped into the ocean from outer space.

One "terrible place" with a "brown sea" has been ranked one of the UK's "worst" seaside towns, in a national survey. Skegness scored 48% in a Which? survey for two years running, placing absolute ...