The quintessential Marathi manoos thus suffers from a sense of loss and alienation as a jubilant Mahayuti begins its tenure ...

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

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 ...

Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s, they've become a major part of everything from medical devices to high-speed internet and cable TV. But as it turns out, one group of marine ...

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 ...

"The heart cockles' fiber optic cables and microlenses may inspire optical technologies," the researchers wrote in the paper. Like many mollusks, these heart cockles—which resemble clams—have ...

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.

But as it turns out, one group of marine mollusks was way ahead of us. A new study reveals that clams called heart cockles -– so-named because of their heart-shaped shells -- have unique ...