Aug 7, 2026 | Climate
The new piece of coral biology, as a Quanta Magazine piece on Pacherres and Kühl’s May 2026 Science paper lays it out, is that the polyps are not passive. Across the surface of every polyp, cilia beat in coordinated hexagonal patches to spin up tiny vortices...
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...
