From quick hits to deep dives, this Mashable series cuts through the noise to explain what on Earth is going on and what you should know about it. A coral farm in the Bahamas is proving that the most ...

Once developed further, the technology may also be utilized to place the grown corals on reefs. "This gripper replicates the dexterity of a human hand, allowing it to handle delicate coral tissue ...

A three months old stony coral Acropora millepora. Samuel Nietzer and Mareen Möller will breed corals like these in aquaria under improved conditions. Coral farming based on sexual propagation, ...

GRAND BAHAMA, Bahamas — Sam Teicher hovers over a section of Rainbow Reef, his yellow and black scuba fins stilling in the turquoise waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Contrary to the reef’s colorful name, ...

Much of the Earth’s freshwater eventually joins with massive, salty oceans where it can deeply impact life in those marine systems. Amid farm fields hundreds of miles away, researchers at Southern ...

Flavor is science. Our tastes are rooted inside thousands of microchemical reactions occurring at near-light speed within our brains. The effects are cumulative. Eat a bunch of stinky cheese and it ...