Heart cockle shells in natural light (top row) and illuminated from within to show the transparent shell windows, which vary from little triangles to stripes to mosaics. Credit: Dakota McCoy A team of ...

Where does the future of energy lie? For Sofie Allert, it’s in the freezing depths of the Nordic oceans – where she harvests algae that can supercharge solar panels. Allert is CEO and co-founder of ...

A heart-shaped mollusc has evolved tiny windows that work like fibre-optic cables, the first known example in nature. Heart cockles (Corculum cardissa) are bivalve molluscs a bit like clams that have ...

An unsuspecting shellfish with an adorable-looking shell may contain the secrets of fast internet speed. This quirk of evolution marks the first time fiber-optic cable bundles have been spotted in a ...

Healthy corals are colorful and full of life. And under normal conditions, corals and algae depend on one another. The corals offer the algae protection and the photosynthesizing algae provide the ...

A team of researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, University College London and Bremen University recently studied a pristine collection of 92 million-year-old algae ...

In a discovery that blurs the line between biology and technology, scientists have found that heart-shaped clams use fiber optic–like structures to channel sunlight through their shells in much the ...

A Swedish team has inaugurated a pilot facility to mass produce algae material that can potentially boost silicon solar module efficiency by 4% and thin film by 36%. The algae are added to the ...

Royal Dutch Shell has sold its interest in the algae fuel joint venture Cellana to its partner, Hawaii-based biofuel company HR BioPetroleum. Shell and HR formed the venture in 2007 with the goal of ...

An unsuspecting shellfish with an adorable-looking shell may contain the secrets of fast internet speed. Heart cockles (Corculum cardissa) have special windows in their shells that let light inside ...