LA Times: As the tide drops, seawater in Ofu Lagoon gets cut off from the ocean swirling around American Samoa. Under the intense South Pacific sun, these shallow waters can reach 93 degrees -- temperatures that typically would make corals overheated, cause them to bleach bone white and die.
Yet the corals in these hot waters seem to be thriving.
A team of researchers at Stanford University has figured out why: These corals leave a set of 60 genes in the "on' position to help them resist heat shock and...