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VIDEO: Cryogenics may be the key to saving Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
Scientists from the United States and Australia are teaming up to try and help save disappearing coral reefs, by freezing coral eggs and sperm, so that endangered species aren’t lost. The coral can be grown in the lab, and then implanted on the reefs.
Crochet, Geometry, and the Coral Reef
Until recently, mathematicians believed you couldn’t represent hyperbolic geometry in real space, but a Latvian math professor discovered a way ? using crochet. Some science educators realized those same hyperbolic shapes mimicked the forms in coral reefs. And now their Crochet Coral Reef Project has landed at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History. Produced by […]