Lab-grown pearls are the latest innovation in sustainable luxury. Discover how they're made, if they're real pearls, and why ...

Pearl lovers will not want to miss Koji Kawamoto and his vast collection of extraordinary creations. This jewelry artist lectures throughout the world about the origins and different types of pearls ...

Ever since humans figured out how to compel a mollusk to make a pearl, cultured pearls have been prized for jewelry and adornment. Part of their allure seems to rest in the mystery of creation that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Sigma Xi Omega Chapter, held its inaugural Cultured Pearls all-female event on Friday, September 27. A spokesperson said, “As the first Black ...

In Japan’s picturesque Ago Bay, a couple sits in a little hut picking out oysters from a net, cleaning them carefully one-by-one before replacing them gently back in the water. Their hope: in several ...