Unlike clams, the heart cockle doesn't need to open wide to bask in the sun. It has a clever trick up its shell: tiny, ...

But heart cockles do not open—instead, as the researchers in this new effort have found, they allow sunlight to pass through their shells courtesy of tiny windows. Photographs of heart cockles ...

Clams called Heart cockles, found in the warm, equatorial waters of the Indo-Pacific, have a mutually beneficial relationship ...

Tiny, solid windows in the shells of heart cockles let in light for the photosynthetic algae inside them – and they could show us how to make better fibre-optic cables ...

Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s, they’ve become a major part of everything from medical devices to ...

Heart cockles have windows in their shells made from natural optical fibers, allowing light through to the algae inside them.

Mineral crystals in heart cockles’ shells protect symbiotic algae from ultraviolet rays and could lead to innovations in internet infrastructure.

But as it turns out, one group of marine mollusks was way ahead of us. A new study reveals that clams called heart cockles have unique structures in their shells that act like fiber optic cables ...

A new study by researchers from Duke University and Stanford University reveals that heart cockles, named for their ...

On this week's Keepin It Real, Cam Marston wants you to know he's NOT A CYNIC..., but there are things this time of year that ...