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Study coauthor; Jane and Marshall Steel, Jr. Professor in Marine Sciences, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

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Bleached corals recover within weeks by touching healthy neighbors

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Ghostly white corals on the brink of death returned to full health in a laboratory within seven weeks through brief physical contact with healthy clones. That is the fastest documented bleaching recovery on record, according to a study published October 14 in Science Advances.

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