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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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO >> Hills of white scallop shells were piling up in Yubetsu, a town facing the Sea of Okhotsk in Hokkaido. They looked like out-of-season snow mounds. The shells blanketed every free space on a ...

Did you know that New Jersey is the number two scallop producer in the nation, just behind Massachusetts? And one of the most celebrated of New Jersey’s scallop fisheries is Barnegat Light’s Viking ...

Archaeologists in coastal Norway have uncovered a Viking-Age grave that is forcing specialists to rethink what they know about death, ritual, and identity in the early medieval north. At the center of ...