A scuba diver until age 79, Georgette Apol Douwma photographed reefs around the world and then transformed her images into dazzling kaleidoscopic designs. Photographer Georgette Apol Douwma’s ...

Touch the branches of Leptogorgia chilensis, a soft coral found along the Pacific coast from California to Chile, and its flexible arms stiffen. Penn Engineers have discovered the mechanism underlying ...

Abnormally hot surface water temperatures have created conditions ripe for an unprecedented coral bleaching event. This side-by-side shows the same elkhorn coral in August 2022 before bleaching and in ...

MANILA, Philippines — Beneath the waters of the West Philippine Sea (WPS) and Benham Rise (Philippine Rise), scientists have discovered wide swathes of diverse soft corals that are reinforcing the ...

MANILA, Philippines—Soft corals in the West Philippine Sea and Benham Bank in the Philippine Rise, which are under threat from China, are among the richest and most diverse in the world, a newly ...

THE soft coral samples used for the study were collected from all over the world. The size of the circles indicate the number of samples from that area and the colors denote different marine provinces ...

A STUDY has found that the soft corals of the West Philippine Sea and the Philippine Rise are among the most diverse in the world, which can be used as medicinal compounds as well as adding aesthetic ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've ...

An international team of scientists have completed the world’s second and largest survey of soft corals, using more than 4,400 museum specimens collected over the past two decades. Their results ...

This tutorial covers a detailed guide on applying lashes, featuring a soft halo smokey eye, contouring, highlighting, and bold coral lips. **Products Used:** - Mac brushes: 134, 224, 239 - MOTIVES ...

Soft corals produce diterpenoids, chemicals that could be used to treat human disease. Now, scientists have identified the genes that make these important chemicals, opening the door to creating a ...