Tokyo advertising agency TBWA\Hakuhodo and plastics manufacturer Koushi Chemical Industry Co have created Shellmet, a hard hat made from discarded scallop shells and recycled plastic. The product was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since scallop shells contain over 95% calcium carbonate, they can be reused in various fields. (Pixabay pic) As scallop season gets underway in France’s Brittany region, let’s have a look at some ...

With 200 eyes and no human-like brain, a scallop shouldn't know where you are. And yet it does. Here's what this animal ...