4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About this Week – Episode 11

Hot and cold time travel, light-speed A.I. for I.D., and hey, where’d the water go? It’s your weekly briefing on the latest discoveries you might not hear about anywhere else, all with funding from the National Science Foundation.

For more information, refer to these news articles:

Astronomers blown away by historic stellar blast
Research by astronomers using Gemini South,
Blanco and Magellan telescopes

Researchers recover Antarctic ice of unprecedented age
University of North Dakota
Vanderbilt University
Berkeley Geochronology Center
with support from U.S. Antarctic Program

Summer monsoon rains benefit underground aquifers
of the desert Southwest
University of California, Riverside
Arizona State University
New Mexico State University
U.S. Department of Agriculture
NSF Jornada Basin Long-Term Ecological Network site

Engineers develop artificial intelligence device that
identifies objects at the speed of light
UCLA

http://www.gemini.edu/node/21086
https://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contentHandler.cfm?id=4370
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=296120&org=NSF&from=news
https://samueli.ucla.edu/ucla-engineers-develop-artificial-intelligence-device-that-identifies-objects-at-the-speed-of-light/

Credit: NSF