CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) - Students and researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are hard at work, growing coral to help save natural ecosystems and learn more about farming marine life.

From quick hits to deep dives, this Mashable series cuts through the noise to explain what on Earth is going on and what you should know about it. A coral farm in the Bahamas is proving that the most ...

Once developed further, the technology may also be utilized to place the grown corals on reefs. "This gripper replicates the dexterity of a human hand, allowing it to handle delicate coral tissue ...

GRAND BAHAMA, Bahamas — Sam Teicher hovers over a section of Rainbow Reef, his yellow and black scuba fins stilling in the turquoise waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Contrary to the reef’s colorful name, ...

Flavor is science. Our tastes are rooted inside thousands of microchemical reactions occurring at near-light speed within our brains. The effects are cumulative. Eat a bunch of stinky cheese and it ...

Our planet’s coral reefs, the ‘rainforests of the sea,’ are facing a serious threat, necessitating urgent restoration. With the introduction of drones designed to plant corals on a large scale, we’ve ...

You can get almost anything at Green Bluff these days: Christmas trees, pumpkins, apples, peaches and even coral. The signs on Green Bluff point you to pumpkin patches, Christmas tree farms and u-pick ...