Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour

Having been a diver on the Great Barrier Reef numerous times, the scale of bleaching events means that there is often no non-bleached neighbour for vast distances. Healthy propagation rarely occurs before the brown sludge sets in, then its game over.

> This incredible new result

Only if you've never talked to anyone remotely involved with propagating coral, including those in the saltwater fish-tank community!

Only if they are clones - genetically identical. So not much use in practice, unfortunately.

Some good news :) anything to bring back coral reefs

My first thought when reading the headline... horizontal gene transfer?

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Could this also, have anything to do with, Nikola Tesla's resonance theory on dark matter and consciousness, in play in living matter?

More intelligent individuals should look more into this field.