Did you know that corals can live deep underwater where it's pitch black and

freezing cold? The truth is that there are actually more species of corals in deep water than there are in shallow water.

It's Friday February 2nd and happy Sangs Friday all. I'm Cyfry producer Brasha Arredi.

I had no idea that corals could live thousands of feet underwater. I always imagine them in shallow, warm waters with the sunlight shining down on them, but deep sea coral reefs are huge. In fact, scientists just revealed the largest one in the world.

Later, we'll learn how scientists mapped it and what makes deep sea quarrels so special.

But first, let's check in on this week's biggest science stories. Here's Ira Flato.

Ciphalis is on the rise in the US. A new federal report on sexually transmitted infections

and Americans revealed Ciphalphilis cases rose 80% between 2018 and 2022, with total cases

being more than 200,000.

That's the highest count in the US since what 1950. But while the

syphilis epidemic is growing other STI rates are down. Joining me to help explain this

another science news of the week

is Rachel Feldman, host of the podcast,

the weirdest thing I learned this week.

Welcome back, Rachel.

Thanks for having me, Ira.

All right, this case of sexually transmitted infections and syphilis, what's going on here?

Yeah, so as you said, we've seen an 80% rise since 2018.

And these are the 22 numbers, which just got released.

And the CDC was very clear that they suspect

2023 was worse. Obviously this is troubling but it's not

surprising you know for the past few years every time these reports have come out

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