An unappreciated group of filter-feeding animals found around our coastlines could clean up our waters and nourish a billion people. Is it time we championed bivalves?

The fight against plastic pollution has a new and unexpected inspiration — mussels. Rice University scientists are borrowing from the adhesive power of the mollusks to generate a new tool for breaking ...

Workers at Fairmount Water Works Mussel Hatchery agitate the water to ensure that mussel larvae are taken into the gills of the host fish. Scientists gathered around blue buckets filled with water and ...