Diving for Underwater Offerings
A team of archaeologists makes its first dive of the field season in search of ancient Maya underwater offerings.
View ArticleHow to Uncover Underwater Artifacts
Diving for Maya artifacts involves high-tech diving equipment and low-tech archaeology tools like pulleys and buckets. Over the course of two days, the buckets reveal some intriguing water jar sherds.
View ArticleArtifacts From a Time of Many Droughts
After finding more water jar pieces, researchers plan their return to Cara Blanca, Belize, to further study the Maya world and how its inhabitants survived multi-year droughts.
View ArticleNight Diving in Search of an Eerie Glow
Scientists arrive in the Solomon Islands to study animals that bioluminesce and biofluoresce.
View ArticleBiofluorescence Under Blue Lights
During a night dive under intense blue lights, the Solomon Islands reef becomes a blazing neon light show.
View ArticleGlowing Wildly on a Moonless Night
Some shallow reef fishes are known to exhibit red fluorescence, but green fluorescence was virtually unknown until very recently.
View ArticleThe Holy Grail of Fluorescent Proteins
Why do scientists travel across the world to study biofluorescence in marine creatures?
View ArticleIn Pristine Reefs, a Vast Library of Species
Scientists search for biofluorescence, and a better understanding of its biological function, in a hotbed of biodiversity in the Solomon Islands nicknamed the "Amazon of the Seas."
View ArticleA Last Dive for Glowing Animals
A diving expedition in search of biofluorescent creatures in the Solomon Islands underscores the scientific value of coral reefs.
View ArticleInto Antarctica's Dark Depths
Lake Untersee is one of the most remote and isolated dive sites in the world. And polar researchers can't wait to drop into its miles of darkness.
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