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New Tool Helps Decision Makers Predict Colorado River’s Future
Water flowing through the Colorado River near Moab, Utah. Courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey. The Colorado River is a vital source of water for the western United States, providing drinking water to homes and irrigation water to farms in seven states, but the watershed is increasingly affected by climate change and drought. A new computational tool developed by a…
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AI tool that scans grains of sand opens window into recent and distant past
A scanning electron microscope reveals the shape and texture of quartz sand grains from the Mississippi River. The grains in this photo are about 200 micrometers long. Courtesy of Michael Hasson/Stanford University Stanford University researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based tool called SandAI that can reveal the history of quartz sand grains going back hundreds of millions of years, allowing…
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