Stephen Nicol, Author at New ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Science news and science articles from New ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Sat, 09 Feb 1991 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 242057827 Life after death for empty shells: Crustacean fisheries create a mountain of waste shells, made of a strong natural polymer, chitin. Now chemists are helping to put this waste to some surprising uses /article/1821703-mg12917555-400/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_content=currents&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=NSNS Sat, 09 Feb 1991 00:00:00 +0000 http://mg12917555.400 1821703 Who’s counting on krill? Whatever happened to krill? Once they were touted as a vast untapped source of protein, but few took the idea seriously. Yet, down in the Southern Ocean huge fishing fleets are bringing in the krill – despite the fact that no one /article/1816537-mg12416903-400/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_content=currents&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=NSNS Sat, 11 Nov 1989 00:00:00 +0000 http://mg12416903.400 1816537