The rollout of new narrow-reef boring technology, which has the potential to boost platinum group metal (PGM) grades, lower ...

Biologists, using a technique that explores both genes and structural characteristics, have introduced 10 new species of marine sponge. Despite their distinction as one of Earth's oldest lifeforms and ...

One of these is the world-famous, UNESCO-listed Great Barrier Reef, which lies off the shore of Australia's northern province, Queensland. The world's largest coral reef (and the only living thing ...

In the reef-building "hard corals", the polyps sit in a carbonate coral skeleton, which over time builds the fabric of the reef. Coral reefs are like cities under the sea. The structure of the ...