As if they don't already face enough challenges from bleaching, many of the world's coral reefs are currently being eaten by the crown-of-thorns starfish. A simple new portable test kit, however ...

This means the reefs still face plenty of threats, even if they could adapt to warming. The model represents an important step forward in coral reef research because it has predictive power. Once the ...

What coral researchers could really use is a computer model that simulates how polyps grow into complex structures from simple physical rules. Such a tool could help them understand how reef ...

The NOAA coral reef authority declared the global bleaching event in April 2024, making it the fourth of its kind since 1998. The previous record from the 2014 to 2017 mass bleaching affected just ...

That’s where deep learning steps in: Dell’s deep learning model can classify a reef’s borders using semantic segmentation in less than 10 seconds, and a citizen scientist would then verify ...