Climate change and declining biodiversity are the two biggest environmental crises facing humankind today, but predicting how ...

Until the current study, cave pearls were neither found in an archaeological context nor used for archaeological research,” ...

New research suggests the probiotic McH1-7 could help stop the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease among wild corals ...

The challenge in the search for habitable worlds is clear. We need to be able to identify habitable worlds and distinguish ...

Give your rosemary plants a boost by reusing eggshells as a fertilizer in your herb garden. Eggshells are rich in calcium ...

A team of meteorologists, Earth scientists and oceanographers at Sorbonne Université, working with one colleague from ...

One of the biggest problems materials scientists are keen to find a workaround for is its brittleness. Concrete doesn't have ...

Enzyme-induced calcium carbonate precipitation (EICP) techniques are used in several disciplines and for a wide range of applications. In the oil and gas industry, EICP is a relatively new technique ...

Recent randomized data suggest that calcium supplements may be associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events. Using a longitudinal cohort study, we assessed the association ...

The formation of calcite prism architecture in the prismatic layer of the mollusk shell involves the participation of a number of different proteins. One protein family, Asprich, has been identified ...

After the animal living in the shell dies and decomposes, the hard outer shell — made mostly of calcium carbonate — is left behind and can be washed up on to the beach. If you grew up in Corpus ...