Researchers show that pill bugs and chitons — small creatures with exoskeletons and reflexive movements — have behaviors making them useful as grippers, with no harm done to the creatures in ...

The lattice arrangement continues in three dimensions. This is why solid ionic compounds form crystals with regular shapes.

sodium + chlorine → sodium chloride magnesium + oxygen → magnesium oxide calcium + chlorine → calcium chloride lithium + oxygen → lithium oxide In all of these reactions, the metal atoms ...

He takes the DNA from modern organisms and based on DNA mutation rates Vinther uses a computer model to calculate when these organisms first diverged: “I have a fossil of a really bizarre looking ...

Scientists have discovered why a strange sea creature called a chiton is covered in thousands of tiny eyes. Chitons are shellfish with hard shells. Some types of chitons have eyes, or ocelli ...

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Snails and slugs are molluscs, a diverse group of animals that’s thought to have evolved over 500 million years ago. Along with snails and slugs the mollusc family includes chitons and bivalves, such ...