Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>What a <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mollusc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mollusc</span></a> shell and fiber optic cables have in common <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/11/23/nx-s1-5199634/heart-shaped-mollusc-shell-resembles-fiber-optic-cables" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2024/11/23/nx-s1-51996</span><span class="invisible">34/heart-shaped-mollusc-shell-resembles-fiber-optic-cables</span></a></p><p>Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses: Dakota McCoy et al. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53110-x" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41467-024</span><span class="invisible">-53110-x</span></a> </p><p>"the structure of the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/HeartCockle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HeartCockle</span></a>'s shell operates as its own kind of fiber <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/OpticCables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpticCables</span></a> to channel light to the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>algae</span></a> living inside it"</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protists</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/symbiosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>symbiosis</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mollusks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mollusks</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/molluscs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>molluscs</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/invertebrates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>invertebrates</span></a></p>