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.

In the late 1700s, a woman collected over a thousand seashells from all over the world. The collection was believed to be lost for decades, until they were saved from the garbage in the 1980s.

The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.