Redfish aren’t just fighters, they’re creatures of pattern and place. This trip explores how structure, salinity, and ...

The shells of adults may have as many as 30 such chambers. This cutaway of a nautilus shell shows its chambers and reveals an elegant spiral structure. An example of a logarithmic spiral.

To understand more about how ancient people crafted a trumpet from a 31cm (1 foot) long conch shell, the archaeologists used high-resolution CT scans to examine the shell’s inner structure ...

Alumina (Al₂O₃) ceramics represent a crucial category of advanced structural engineering materials due to their excellent ...

Reference: Science 10.1126/science.1173826 Images: from Singeru Kuratani, Hiroshi Nagashima and Science/AAAS More on turtles: Heroes in a half-shell show how turtles evolved ...

The Scripps Research Institute. "Complete structure of HIV’s outer shell revealed." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 20 January 2011. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 01 / 110119132520.htm>.

It’s a bit clearer why the snail turns its shell into a lamp. Deheyn found that they flash in response to predators. Slow-moving animals like other snails triggered some mild flashing. But true ...

Because the argonaut still carries around a nautilus-shell-like construction, it has fueled the scientific debate about whether, and how, an animal can lose such a structure during the course of ...

The turtle inhales when that pressure is released. “The shell is a complex structure; it isn’t just going to appear all of a sudden. It’s going to appear over time,” Lyson said.

In turn, these results can be used to improve theoretical models, and lend strong support to the nuclear shell model. Science, 2012. DOI: 10.1126/science.1225636 (About DOIs).

Pictured: a turtle with a really cool shell.Dan Nosowitz is a freelance writer and editor who has written for Popular Science, The Awl, Gizmodo, Fast Company, BuzzFeed, and elsewhere. He holds an ...