Category: Science

Stanford researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based tool—dubbed SandAI—that can reveal the history of quartz sand grains going back hundreds of millions of years. With SandAI, researchers can tell with high accuracy if wind, rivers, waves, or glacial movements shaped and deposited motes of sand. Stanford researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based tool—dubbed SandAI—that can reveal…

Two-week public inquiry sees last communication before deep-sea disaster near wreck of Titanic last year. Two-week public inquiry sees last communication before deep-sea disaster near wreck of Titanic last year.  BBC News

A new paper co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scholar who studies how authenticity and aesthetics intersect with branding found that interracial couples featured in advertisements enhanced brand outcomes relative to white couples, but also decreased brand outcomes relative to Black, Hispanic and Asian couples. A new paper co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign…

The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred about 252 million years ago, was the most severe extinction event in the past 540 million years. The post Mega El Niño Events Caused End-Permian Mass Extinction, Researchers Suggest appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.  The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred about 252 million years ago, was the…

Around 252 million years ago, the world suddenly heated up. Over a geologically brief period of tens of thousands of years, 90% of species were wiped out. Even insects, which are rarely touched by such events, suffered catastrophic losses. The Permian-Triassic mass extinction, as it’s known, was the greatest of the “big five” mass extinctions…

More people in the UK now access news online than on television, according to new survey data from the media regulator Ofcom. This is the first time Ofcom’s annual news consumption poll has found online media use ahead of TV news. More people in the UK now access news online than on television, according to new…

Egyptian temples were not only colorful, but also gleamed in glistening gold. Columns, gates and obelisks have been covered in gold since the beginning of the Pharaonic Period. Researchers also know from textual sources that some of the buildings were gilded. In most cases, these were overlays of thicker metal foils made of gilded copper….

This morning, my six-year-old came into our bedroom and started reading a story from a book. She followed each word on the page, slowly forming full sentences. Sometimes she stumbled and asked for help with some “funny words,” but by the end of the book, she had told us a story about a bear in…

The Southern Annular Mode (SAM), with an iconic dipolar zonal wind pattern centered around the axis of the storm track, is the most dominant mode of variability orchestrating the weather and wind from the subtropics to the poles. Its origin, maintenance and feedback have been one of the central themes of atmospheric dynamics. But what…

A study published in the journal Earthquake Research Advances sheds light on the relationship between the 2024 magnitude 7.6 Noto Hanto earthquake and a sizable earthquake swarm that began beneath Japan’s Noto Peninsula in November 2020. A study published in the journal Earthquake Research Advances sheds light on the relationship between the 2024 magnitude 7.6 Noto…