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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOSTON---Collecting pretty seashells is more than a vacation pastime for scientists from the University of Michigan and Ohio State University, whose analyses of scallop shells are filling gaps in ...