Anastasia Maillot is an Evergreen Editor based in Finland working for Game Rant, where she combines her passion for fiction writing and video games. Although she's not limited to a specific genre of ...

A great irony of pearl history is that the least expensive cultured pearl product in the market today rivals the quality of the most expensive natural pearls ever found. The price-value anomaly is ...

Carlsbad, Sept. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Technology developed by Hong Kong-based Fukui Shell Nucleus Factory creates opportunities for tracing cultured pearls through the supply chain. GIA ...

Off the coast of Japan’s verdant Saikai National Park, the Kujukushima Islands lie scattered amid a sprawling network of narrow inlets. Their name literally translates as “99 islands,” though there ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- Florida's next cash crop might be pea-sized pink pearls grown in the brown bodies of queen conchs. Two scientists at Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic ...

BOCA RATON, FL (November 4, 2009) – For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch (Strombus gigas) have been unsuccessful—until now. For the first time, novel and ...

The luster of pearls has enchanted people for ages, says Jeffrey Post, curator of the National Gem and Mineral Collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Northwest. “Each ...