No matter the origin, a reverence for pearls spread throughout the world over the ensuing millennia. India's sacred books and epic tales abound with pearl references. One legend has the Hindu god ...

The oyster or mussel slowly secretes layers of aragonite and conchiolin, materials that also make up its shell. This creates a material called nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, which encases the ...

Lusting for a glamorous life like she's seen in the movies, Pearl finds her ambitions, temptations, and repressions all colliding in this origin story of X's iconic villain.

Amidst the whirl of rumors about how the iconic grunge squad, Pearl Jam, pinned down their name, it turns out the backstory is quite straightforward. Before they made waves as Pearl Jam, the rock ...

PEARL uses cfDNA sequencing data, collected for routine prenatal tests like checking for chromosomal disorders in the baby. By analyzing the structure and origin of cfDNA fragments from the ...

a semolina product that is North African in origin). The pearl-shaped “ptitim” wheat product came about during a period of intense rationing in Israel in the 1950s, when the country was seeing ...