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 ...

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 ...

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 are generally considered sedentary organisms, meaning that they do not move around much. However, this very still lifestyle changes when a scallop is disturbed by a predator. This disturbance ...

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 ...

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Preheat the oven to 250°C. Line the bottoms of six serving plates with half an inch of coarse salt. This will create an attractive presentation for the scallop shells and prevent them from sliding on ...