Scientists are studying how the argonaut octopus evolved the ability to produce a floating shell-like structure to care for its offspring. By Sofia Quaglia Argonauta Argo is not a typical octopus.

The Japanese Government having recently announced the adoption of just such a shell, Inventor Jauron declared he would sue. Contact us at letters@time.com ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, she and her colleagues conclude that the structure of the heart cockle's shell operates as its own kind of fiber optic cables to channel light to the ...

a team by Peng-An Zong from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanjing Tech University in China recently developed a dual-mode temperature-pressure sensor based on a core-shell ...