Corals run their own pumps \u2014 and the pumps overheat

Corals run their own pumps \u2014 and the pumps overheat

Aug 6, 2026 | Journal

A coral looks like a rock. It isn’t. It is, among other things, a small engineering project, and the engineer is a forest of hairs a few micrometers long that no one bothered to study closely until 2014. Every coral colony sits inside a thin sliver of seawater...
The Stones That Kept the Empire Upright

The Stones That Kept the Empire Upright

Aug 1, 2026 | Maritime History & Archaeology

The Batavia did not die quietly, and it did not die alone. On the morning of 4 June 1629, the flagship of the Dutch East India Company’s outbound fleet drove onto Morning Reef in the Houtman Abrolhos archipelago, about sixty kilometres off the coast of what is...