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 ...

Don’t panic in the face of whole scallops. Adam Geringer-Dunn from Greenpoint Fish and Lobster is here to demonstrate that shucking and prepping this juicy bivalve is actually a breeze. Buying ...

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 ...

Have you ever held a handful of scallop shells and wondered why they are colored differently? Or where the holes in a clam shell came from? And what is a mermaid's purse, exactly? Here's a fun guide ...

Usami and his team are now transforming discarded shells into a new material called Shellstic—like plastic, but with about 20% to 50% shells. After one year of development, the first major product to ...

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 ...