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Hokkaido develops new uses for discarded scallop shells

TOKYO >> Hills of white scallop shells were piling up in Yubetsu, a town facing the Sea of Okhotsk in Hokkaido. They looked ...
Nanowerk

Particle collision method creates core-shell microparticles with nanoparticle shells

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking 'Hybrid Supraparticle Synthesis Technology' that attaches inorganic nanoparticles to the surface of polymer microparticles through simple mechanical ...
Knowridge Science Report

Scientists turn mussel shell waste into a sustainable abrasive for jeans

Researchers from the University of the Basque Country (EHU), working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have shown that ground mussel shells can be used as an effective and ...
The Conversation

Empty mollusc shells hold the story of evolution, even for extinct species. Now we can decode it

Nic Rawlence receives funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund. Kerry Walton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...
Fast Company

Hermit crabs are using plastic pollution as shells

Land hermit crabs have been using bottle tops, parts of old light bulbs, and broken glass bottles as shelters instead of shells. Polish researchers studied 386 images of hermit crabs occupying these ...