Add “build coral reefs” to all the things 3D printers can do.

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By Amelia UrrySep 9, 2016, 6:06 am123 pts
Australian architect James Gardiner wants to use 3D-printing technology to build structures for coral to grow on in places where reefs are decimated by disease, pollution, dredging, and other maladies (looking at you, crown o’ thorns). Right now, artificial reefs are built out of uniform, blocky assemblages…

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