Using an innovative new approach to sampling corals, researchers at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa are now able to create maps of coral biochemistry that reveal with unprecedented detail the ...

A large international team of researchers has found that cilia on coral reef polyps generate horizontal currents that are used to carry mucus across the surface of a reef. In their paper published in ...

In a bit of biological magic, some tiny, jellyfish-like creatures learned eons ago how to weave seawater into durable, life-sustaining, rocky coral reefs, which provide billions in economic benefits.

Despina Linaraki is a lecturer in architecture but instead of designing city skyscrapers, she is building structures for an underwater world. She traded Columbia University in New York for the Gold ...

In a new study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society, the scientists show how tiny hydrozoans, polyps smaller than one millimeter and commonly found in dense colonies on the surface of ...

Although they may look more like interesting rocks, corals are animals! Corals are invertebrates (animals without a backbone) and belong to the phylum Cnidaria, along with sea anemones, sea pens and ...

As the oceans warm, coral reefs face an uncertain future. Scientists are piecing together the current state of their global ...

Offshore wind turbine foundations in tropical waters offer vast submerged surface area, yet their potential to support ...

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