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GLOW WITH THE FLOW

GOOD SCIENCE

LIGHT MEAL: Proteins within reef corals like this Echinophyllia species can fluoresce, absorbing sunlight and re-emitting it in a red-orange glow so that algae deep within the coral can photosynthesize.
E. SMITH
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