"Not garbage! Not an alien!" the Seaside Aquarium posted on Facebook recently. "It's a giant marine snail egg casing!" Fully grown, the Lewis' moon snail can grow up to 5.5 inches. The Washington ...

Anyone who has driven a car in Minnesota over a winter or two is familiar with the three basic types of windshield ice scrapers. There’s the one-hander, a sort of short spatula small enough to fit in ...

After collecting the cells, Yelick and Zhang grow them in a lab until there are a sufficient number of cells. In past experiments, Yelick and other researchers "seeded" the cells onto scaffolds -- ...

After two months, the lab-grown teeth were subsequently removed — sorry to those pigs — and Yelick was impressed upon discovering that they were very "toothlike." The new structures had even begun ...

This scraper is part of the quest to find the most effective tool to battle winter. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...