Mother-of-pearl is the hard, silvery, internal layer of several kinds of shells, especially oysters, the large varieties of which in the Indian Seas secrete this coat of sufficient thickness to ...

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Most people know mother-of-pearl, an iridescent biomineral also called nacre, from buttons, jewelry, instrument inlays and other decorative flourishes. Scientists, too, have admired and marveled at ...

Nacre is remarkable stuff. Commonly known as mother of pearl, it is basically calcium carbonate, but the organisms build this protective shell around their fleshy parts in the form of flat ...

A group of researchers think they’ve found a simpler, more accurate way to track historical ocean temperatures: studying nacre, or mother-of-pearl, under a microscope. Mother-of-pearl is an ...