Coral reefs not only provide the world with rich, productive ecosystems and photogenic undersea settings, they also contribute an economic boost valued at hundreds of billions of dollars. But their ...

The health of coral reefs around the world has been threatened from a variety of natural and human-produced sources. In order to more accurately decipher the factors that lead to healthy growth of ...

Tropical corals are famous for their captivating colors thanks to microscopic algae inhabitants. Glowing, on the other hand, is not standard fare for tropical reefs. Glowing corals in New Caledonia ...

Australian scientists have discovered a cluster of brilliant shallow-water corals that could help in the search for anti-cancer drugs and to understand global warming. The vividly fluorescent cluster ...

It is a known fact that corals glow, even at a depth of 45 meters. Now, Tel Aviv University researchers have succeeded in proving for the first time, evidence that the corals’ fluorescent colors are ...

Corals know how to attract good company. New research finds that corals emit an enticing fluorescent green light that attracts the mobile microalgae, known as Symbiodinium, that are critical to the ...

Coral Morphologic’s Miami studio is home to the fluorescent corals and alien-like creatures featured on the audiovisual album Tangerine Reef, which commemorates the 2018 International Year of the Reef ...

A group of researchers at RIKEN in Japan have developed a fluorescent protein that can be switched on and off more than 100 times. 1 Atsushi Miyawaki and colleagues engineered monomeric fluorescent ...

Corals are well-known for the brilliant colors they sport, but less well-known is the light, or fluorescence, that most coral species give off. Monitoring the levels of this fluorescence could be an ...

As a means of recruiting symbiotic partners, corals send out a beacon of light that draws in algae passing by, scientists reported yesterday (January 21) in PNAS. In lab experiments, they showed that ...

Under stress, certain coral species put on displays to try to re-attract symbiotic algae they need to survive. By David Waldstein Breaking up is hard to do, and the measures some take to get their ...