by CORAL Magazine | Dec 11, 2020 | Marine
Shark squalene is a key ingredient in some vaccines, fact of major concern to marine biologists. Graphic: Jeff Kepler@seventh.voyage/Shark Allies Lost in the breathless reporting about the global rush to produce and administer Covid-19 vaccines is the very real...
by CORAL Magazine | Dec 11, 2020 | Marine, News & Notes
Branson’s new Aquarium at the Boardwalk promises something spectacular from the moment you walk up, as this exterior rendering demonstrates. The 55-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture of Aquarius the Octopus is currently being completed; we’ll update with...
by CORAL Magazine | Nov 20, 2020 | Marine, News & Notes
Stray light from coastal development can severely disrupt coral reproductive cycles, new study finds—and blue-spectrum LED lighting is the worst. Satellite view of earth at night in the western hemisphere showing “skyglow” of human development. Stray light...
by CORAL Magazine | Nov 13, 2020 | Marine, News & Notes
A high-power microscopic image of the skeleton from Turbinaria peltata shows a pattern of both ion-attachment (in blue) and nanoparticle attachment (in green) of new minerals to the skeleton, indicating that both systems are used to build coral...
by CORAL Magazine | Nov 6, 2020 | Marine, New Products
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