This article appears in print in the November 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Local food and travel writer Naomi Tomky’s work has been published in dozens of national magazines, but The Pacific ...

Marine mussels employ a suite of biomechanical strategies to attach to and persist on dynamic shorelines. Central to these strategies is the secretion of byssal threads, proteinaceous filaments that ...

The mussels can wreak havoc on waterways. A new contest offers thousands of dollars for ideas to stop the spread.

Threads is rolling out messaging on the web, bringing one-on-one and group chats to desktop, the Meta-owned social network announced on Tuesday. By bringing messaging to the web, Threads is aligning ...

Chiara Vigo, one of the last byssus weavers in the world, is sharing her passion and knowledge on this ancient form of weaving with the public at a Magic Box event at the Italian Cultural Institute in ...

Los Angeles County public health officials are urging people not to eat recreationally harvested mussels from the California coast due to an increase in naturally occurring toxins that can cause ...

Thread count is often top of mind when it comes to bed sheets, with many assuming that the higher the number, the better the fabric quality. But the reality is not so black and white. “Thread count is ...

Threads is a social sharing platform that allows discussion and the sharing of ideas through text messages and operates similarly to X (formerly Twitter). Threads aims to offer a friendly environment ...

Ben Palmer set up a fake tip line for people to report immigrants in the United States, and recorded the conversations. Things got uncomfortable and, to some, surprisingly funny. How... Lost in a ...

Mussel beds formed by Mytilus and Modiolus species are keystone biogenic structures in intertidal and subtidal zones. As ecosystem engineers, dense mussel aggregations modify sediment stability, ...