Many microbes wear beautifully patterned crystalline shells, which protect them from a harsh world and can even help them reel in food. Studies at the Department of Energy's SLAC National ...

How a Virus Circumvents Energy Barriers to Form Symmetric Shells, Sanaz Panahandeh, Siyu Li, Laurent Marichal, Rafael Leite Rubim, Guillaume Tresset, Roya Zandi, ACS Nano 2020, March 2, 2020 https ...

Some researchers theorized that turtle shells started as bony skin plates, called osteoderms, which eventually fused to form a hard shell.

How the Turtle Got Its Shell, With Apologies to Aesop Smithsonian paleontologist Hans Sues unpacks the complicated evolution of how this creature grew a home upon its back ...

As they swing past one another (within the central white dot in the Webb images), the stellar winds from each star slam together, the material compresses, and carbon-rich dust forms. Webb's latest ...