The Croatian Fraternal Union Building in Oakland was designed in the Flemish Gothic Revival Style and built beginning in 1928. Gracing Oakland with a spectacle of high arches, ornate pillars, and ...

Airplane wings that don't ice up or solar cells that generate electricity even in winter - ice-free surfaces are important for many applications. A team of scientists has now studied an Antarctic ...

TOKYO >> Hills of white scallop shells were piling up in Yubetsu, a town facing the Sea of Okhotsk in Hokkaido. They looked like out-of-season snow mounds. The shells blanketed every free space on a ...

South Australians are being invited to enjoy local seafood, recycle their shells and help build new shellfish reefs, with a statewide initiative turning oyster, mussel and scallop shells into vital ...

Scallops' soft bodies are well-protected by their hard shells, so … could those same shells protect human heads? That question was asked by the Japanese designers of the Shellmet, which is a helmet ...