Photo by Dakota McCoy Clams called Heart cockles, found in the warm, equatorial waters of the Indo-Pacific, have a mutually ...

Calcium carbonate is referred to as "nature's ceramic" because of its strength—egg shells, surprisingly enough, are as strong as bones, and some egg shells are tough enough to support a human being.

Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s, they've become a major part of everything from medical devices to high-speed internet and cable TV. But as it turns out, one group of marine ...

Tiny, solid windows in the shells of heart cockles let in light for the photosynthetic algae inside them – and they could ...

If you're anything like me, you probably toss eggshells in the trash as soon as you crack them. But next time, you might want ...

A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could inspire ...

A team of marine biologists, ecologists and evolutionary specialists from the University of Chicago, Stanford University and ...

Heart cockles have windows in their shells made from natural optical fibers, allowing light through to the algae inside them.

THE classical theory of the mechanism of production of the carbonate fraction of the calcium carbonate of the hen's egg shell is that of Gutowska and Mitchell 1. This theory makes use of the ...

DANIEL: McCoy then looked more closely at the shell's architecture. She knew it was made out of a kind of calcium carbonate, a mineral that's usually opaque in coral skeletons or other clamshells. But ...

McCoy and Dionne then looked more closely at the shell's architecture. They knew it was made out of a kind of calcium carbonate, aragonite, a mineral that's usually opaque in coral skeletons or ...