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March 12, 2012 — Evidence uncovered during research conducted in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio late last year appears to sup- port the theory that a lost Leonardo da Vinci painting existed on [...]

Archaeology Now Take a deep dive into the Ice Age as Dr. Dominique Rissolo introduces exciting new interdisciplinary scientific advances that reveal previously elusive information about the [...]

For thousands of years, the massive pelvis lay undisturbed at the bottom of the watery black pit. Approximately four feet across and weighing an estimated 80 pounds, it had once belonged to a [...]

By Michael Menduno / InDepth When I asked Sam Meacham how old he was during the course of our interview, he immediately quipped, “old enough to know better than to have dedicated my life to cave [...]

A powerful visual analytics platform is translating photographs of coral reefs into navigable 3D maps that allow researchers to delve into the depths of these critically important and delicate [...]

By Audra Stafford / NBC 7 San Diego A new high-tech tool at UC San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute allows researchers to virtually view the world in a whole new way. Dubbed the SunCAVE, it is the [...]

La tecnología hace que podamos tener casi todo al alcance de la mano; pero hay un sistema especial en San Diego que transporta a las personas hasta lo más profundo de una cueva en México. 

Dominique Rissolo and Antonella Wilby participate in the 2018 National Ocean Exploration Forum at MIT Media Lab. Please see full story here.

By Erik Vance / Hakai Magazine For thousands of years, ancient Maya kings ruled a vast inland empire in Mexico and Belize. But just how inland was it, really? Vista Alegre, a ruin of a town near [...]

A Scientist’s Life: Jennifer Smith Jennifer Smith is a coral reef ecologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego since 2008. She received her PhD [...]