According to Science Daily, if the corals do not recover the algae "within a few days" of expelling them, the coral reefs eventually crumble and die.
The algae, known as Symbiodinium, is part of a group of creatures known as dinoflagellates, which are responsible for processing one-third of all CO2 in the world's oceans, reports Science Daily.
In the drearily head-lined article, Compensation negotiation among women in the workplace over at Science Daily, we learn that ingratiation (sometimes called kissing the backside of our corporate masters) remains one of the best ways to avoid the social punishment meted out to women who ask to be compensated for their true market value.
The Daily Mail science editor, Michael Hanlon, has already boldly claimed that "what has happened in Japan should in fact be seen as a massive endorsement of nuclear power", given the success of most Japanese plants at withstanding a disaster they were never designed for, but others will use exactly the same information to reach the directly opposite conclusion.
BBC: Japan nuclear threat: The tsunami is the bigger tragedy
The daily advances in science and technology lend hope that on balance things can be even better.
And if it does, scanning our eyes or speaking to ATMs may move out of the realm of science fiction and into our daily lives.
Ms. LAURA SNIDER (Science and Environmental Reporter, Daily Camera): Hi.
Next year the Christian Science Monitor will become the first daily national paper to move entirely to online distribution.
Laura Snider is a science and environmental reporter for the Daily Camera.
She quickly moved to the Science Unit as a reporter writing daily stories for the World Service's 40 or so foreign language sections.
Kabat is a cancer epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology.
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Geoffrey Kabat is an epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology.
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What I want to convey with the term science-help is that several of us are writing books about a range of topics in psychology and cognitive science that are also applicable to daily living.
The future looks a lot more like science fiction in health care than in any other part of our daily lives.
It tested students on how much they knew about science and their ability to use scientific knowledge to address questions in daily life.
Perhaps if our society were more ready to celebrate those who are ingenious, or "good with their hands", and produce the inventions that allow us to lead comfortable daily lives, we would all become genuinely interested in the science that underpins the kettle and the clock.
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