Snails and slugs are common pests in gardens. They belong to the mollusk family along with oysters, and they crawl along over ...

Eggshells have many garden uses. They can help nourish the soil, change the pH, and kill pathogens. However, they're not ...

The Coonamessett Farm Foundation is trying to create a market for species that prey on bivalves — especially scallops, which ...

This time last year I was a non-person sunk neck-deep in sofa. Mindless jelly, clumsily packaged in skin so embarrassingly ...

If you're visiting a sandy beach you may like to reflect on something that might be going on below your feet. Lurking behind ...

Scientists warn that a proposed expansion of Port Everglades could cause unprecedented damage to corals in the U.S., ...

Pearls begin as irritants within oysters, which respond by slowly covering the foreign object with layers of nacre. This ...

But cleverness is hard to define - animals have to contend with different challenges in life and what might be clever or ...

Certain parasitic worms survive by taking control of snail behavior. Instead of hiding, infected snails are driven into exposed areas where predators can easily find them. The worms manipulate ...

Two related discoveries detailing nanocrystalline mineral formation and dynamics have broad implications for managing nuclear ...

The Namib desert of south-western Africa can be extremely hot—the surface temperature can be over 50°C. But a surprising ...

macOS 26 came out recently. One of the things that’s different about it is that the built-in applications all have loads of ...