Airplane wings that don't ice up or solar cells that generate electricity even in winter - ice-free surfaces are important for many applications. A team of scientists has now studied an Antarctic ...

Present age determination techniques for the sea scallop, Placopecten magellanicus (Gmelin), rely on the subjective interpretation of lines on the shell exterior as representing periods of annual ...

Scallops' soft bodies are well-protected by their hard shells, so … could those same shells protect human heads? That question was asked by the Japanese designers of the Shellmet, which is a helmet ...

Dustless chalk has been around for a while, but Nihon Rikagaku’s developed a new kind of chalk made from crushed-up scallop shells which reduces dust but manages to maximize the intensity of the ...