Oct 14, 2026 · 49 min · 17 segments
A promising new study out of Stanford gives us hope for saving bleached coral. Humans are doing very human things with humanoid robots. New details on a recent art heist and subsequent arrest and a…
Long enough, here's something uplifting, and we always need some uplifting news.
This new study shows that there may well, looks like, be a way to save ghost coral from the brink of death.
They put a, a clone of it, and the old coral that looked near death, it looked kind of nasty-looking, right? All the color just left.
They say the dying coral, after physically touching healthy coral in the lab, completely recovered within seven weeks.
One of the doctoral students getting a PhD in oceans at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability said, "What was most exciting about this is seeing the remarkable potential that bleached corals have to rapidly recover," because a lot of times these bleached corals are treated as a lost cause, like it's too late, they're done, right? N- no.
So again, the article in SFGATE, and here's what they say: "In the wild, individual corals of many different species multiply by producing clones.
This study demonstrates that in a lab setting, one bleached coral fragment and one healthy coral fragment from the same animal needed close contact for about one week for healing to occur." And they make the distinction, or they make the, the comparison between healthy corals or coral clones and human clones or the, uh, human organ transplants.
They say, "Genetically identical corals recognize one another when they come into contact." Oh, I know you.
The tissues fuse if they are, are from the same clone, and they say there's something similar that happens in humans.
Now, I'm all excited calling it a cure, but they say until further research is con- conducted, it might not be feasible to use this exact approach on the scale necessary to restore an entire reef in the wild, that that would require genetically identical healthy copy of each dying coral and continuous contact.
All of these things in the wild, big question marks, right? But what they do say in the Stanford study is that the new insights on how corals can naturally recover offer a lot of hope for our future.
Long enough, here's something uplifting, and we always need some uplifting news.
This new study shows that there may well, looks like, be a way to save ghost coral from the brink of death.
They put a, a clone of it, and the old coral that looked near death, it looked kind of nasty-looking, right? All the color just left.
They say the dying coral, after physically touching healthy coral in the lab, completely recovered within seven weeks.
One of the doctoral students getting a PhD in oceans at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability said, "What was most exciting about this is seeing the remarkable potential that bleached corals have to rapidly recover," because a lot of times these bleached corals are treated as a lost cause, like it's too late, they're done, right? N- no.
So again, the article in SFGATE, and here's what they say: "In the wild, individual corals of many different species multiply by producing clones.
This study demonstrates that in a lab setting, one bleached coral fragment and one healthy coral fragment from the same animal needed close contact for about one week for healing to occur." And they make the distinction, or they make the, the comparison between healthy corals or coral clones and human clones or the, uh, human organ transplants.
They say, "Genetically identical corals recognize one another when they come into contact." Oh, I know you.
The tissues fuse if they are, are from the same clone, and they say there's something similar that happens in humans.
Now, I'm all excited calling it a cure, but they say until further research is con- conducted, it might not be feasible to use this exact approach on the scale necessary to restore an entire reef in the wild, that that would require genetically identical healthy copy of each dying coral and continuous contact.
All of these things in the wild, big question marks, right? But what they do say in the Stanford study is that the new insights on how corals can naturally recover offer a lot of hope for our future.
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