People are passionate about the Pantone Institute’s recently announced color of the year: Living coral. Some absolutely l-o-v-e the saturated orangey base with a golden undertone. Others despise it.

Staghorn coral larvae don’t have eyes. Yet shifting the color of underwater light can reverse their usual preferences for spots to settle. Such subtleties of color could serve as one of the cues that ...

New research has revealed a unique mechanism in reef-building corals that allows them to switch their light sensitivity between ultraviolet and visible light using chloride ions from their environment ...

Fans of peach pastel colors and handheld gaming systems, prepare to be psyched! Nintendo is coming out with a “coral” colored Switch Lite. The color was apparently chosen to reflect the visuals of the ...

Acropora corals with colorful bleaching in New Caledonia. (Photo courtesy The Ocean Agency / XL Catlin Seaview Survey) (CN) — Some coral reefs are adapting to warming ocean temperatures by making ...

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The Nintendo Switch Lite collection of systems has been a cost-effective way to take Nintendo’s latest generation of gaming on the go. Though the system trades the dockable style of the original and ...

Earlier this year, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) senior scientist and coral reef ecologist Eric Hochberg published a paper in the journal Coral Reefs that put numbers to a widely accepted ...

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