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