CARLSBAD, Calif. — About four miles off the Southern California coast, a company bets it can solve one of desalination's biggest problems by moving the technology deep below the ocean's surface.

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 ...

For years, scientists studying earthquake risk in northwestern Turkey have known where the North Anatolian fault runs but not exactly how it behaves beneath the Marmara Sea. That uncertainty has ...