Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La ...

Spring is in full swing, which means summer is right around the corner, and with spring cleaning comes summer shopping. Temperatures are rising and days are getting longer, but clothes are getting ...

Sea turtles are the oceans’ wanderers. They live for up to a hundred years, and meander hundreds of thousands of miles. The reptiles grow continuously through life, and as they do, their shell grows ...

For a long time, shell mosaics were easy to dismiss. They were mostly associated with quaint “sailor’s valentines,” intricate 19th-century shell arrangements tucked inside octagonal boxes and sold as ...

Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice cores—are now being repurposed to help us better understand the lives of modern ...