Researchers from the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) are drawing new biomimicry inspiration for body armor design from a hardy ocean snail that boasts a shell structure unlike ...

[This snail fights enemies with shots of weaponized insulin] Luckily, scientists can use ultraviolet light to draw out the color patterns of these ancient shells. Areas that were once pigmented ...

Now, new evidence suggests the drawing dates not to the prehistoric ... Now, reports BBC News, an analysis of snail shells found at the site suggests the artwork actually dates to the medieval ...

But that’s not the case with snails and their coiled shells. They are chiral — asymmetrical in such a way that they can’t be superimposed on mirror images of themselves. Golf clubs have ...