Usami and his team are now transforming discarded shells into a new material called Shellstic—like plastic, but with about 20% to 50% shells. After one year of development, the first major product to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The village of Sarufutsu in Japan's Soya district, is known for its shellfish industry. As such, it churns out about 40,000 tons of empty shells each year which piles up in huge mounds. Working with ...

PLYMOUTH - Large scallop shells rolled into Plymouth Friday for an outdoor unveiling at the Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce. Artists and sponsors were on hand to view the monumental mollusks and ...