Just like a human newborn, coral larvae need just the right environment to settle and begin their new life. Understanding the ideal surface geometry for coral settlement and early growth was the ...

Divers exploring submerged caves off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula uncovered clear signs of human mining activity dating back 12,500 years. Stone tools, extraction pits, navigational markers, and ...

At first glance, the world map seems familiar and unchanging, with its continents neatly in place. But far beneath the waves of the southwestern Pacific, stretching around New Zealand and New ...