A scientist surveying a California creek bed for a frog habitat project accidentally discovered a pristinely preserved Pacific Mastodon tooth estimated to be 2.5 million years old, now headed to Stanford University for research. Brigid Lynch, a geomorphologist with Balance Hydrologics, was picking through rocks in a San Mateo County creek bed when one caught […] The post Geomorphologist stumbles onto 2.5-million-year-old mastodon molar in California creek bed appeared first on American Almanac .
A scientist surveying a California creek bed for a frog habitat project accidentally discovered a pristinely preserved Pacific Mastodon tooth estimated to be 2.5 million years old, now headed to Stanford University for research. Brigid Lynch, a geomorphologist with Balance Hydrologics, was picking through rocks in a San Mateo County creek bed when one caught her eye. She photographed the oddly shaped stone and moved on. The next day, reviewing the image, she realized she wasn't looking at a rock at all. It was a mastodon molar, an upper left third molar from a beast that roamed Ice Age California. The accidental find, The Sun reported , has now been donated to Stanford University's Doerr School of Sustainability, where researchers plan…Open
Elon Musk bought Twitter saying civilization needed a "common digital town square." Four years later, it's more like a live group chat for Silicon Valley's AI obsessives . Why it matters: Two years ago, X was fighting off competition from a slew of new entrants. Today, it remains relevant by becoming more niche. - The people making AI news are often debating it, explaining it and occasionally breaking it on X before the rest of the information ecosystem catches up. State of play: New model releases, research papers, demos, hiring moves, high-profile executive exits and technical arguments ricochet through X in real time. - The latest viral example came Tuesday when Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation on X, along…
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OpenAI says it’s cracked one of math’s biggest unsolved problems: the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. How did AI solve something that humans couldn’t solve for decades? Austin Westfall asks mathematician, author and Cornell professor Steven Strogatz about the discovery, and what AI’s rapidly evolving capabilities mean for the future of mathematics and research.
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OpenAI says its AI has solved the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem, a potentially historic breakthrough shadowed by questions over unpublished research by outside mathematicians. Why it matters: The controversy strikes at a core trust question for AI-assisted science: whether researchers can safely use frontier labs' tools to work on unpublished discoveries. State of play: OpenAI said Tuesday an internal model "significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra" produced a proof that the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations can develop a singularity in finite time. - The company says the effort began Sept. 1, after OpenAI researchers heard rumors that two Millennium Prize problems had been solved and launched its new internal…
President Donald J. Trump on Thursday celebrated Micron’s plan to spend $10 billion on new research laboratories in the United States, another win for American policy pulling advanced technology back home. Memory has become the bottleneck that feeds AI machines. Without enough of it, even the fastest computers sit idle. That is why we must […] The post Trump Hails Micron’s Extra $10 Billion for American Memory Research After $250 Billion Factory Pledge appeared first on StoneZone .
President Donald J. Trump on Thursday celebrated Micron’s plan to spend $10 billion on new research laboratories in the United States, another win for American policy pulling advanced technology back home. Memory has become the bottleneck that feeds AI machines. Without enough of it, even the fastest computers sit idle. That is why we must keep both research and production on American soil. Industry and university leaders backed the plan on day one. Micron , the only American memory manufacturer, unveiled the labs in Boise, Idaho, on August 20. This pledge is separate from more than $250 billion the company has already committed to American factories and development through 2035. That factory program is projected to support 90,000…Open
The organizers of science's quirkiest awards show moved their ceremony to Switzerland after declaring it "unsafe" for guests to visit America, but never specified what danger they had in mind. Ten research teams picked up Ig Nobel Prizes on Thursday at a convention center in Zurich for studies ranging from cockroach milk to the science […] The post Ig Nobel Prize ceremony flees the U.S. for the first time in 35 years over vague "safety" claims appeared first on American Almanac .
The organizers of science's quirkiest awards show moved their ceremony to Switzerland after declaring it "unsafe" for guests to visit America, but never specified what danger they had in mind. Ten research teams picked up Ig Nobel Prizes on Thursday at a convention center in Zurich for studies ranging from cockroach milk to the science of blowing your nose. The awards, handed out every year since 1991 by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, honor genuine scientific work that "makes you laugh, then makes you think." For 35 consecutive years the ceremony called the United States home, rotating among Harvard, MIT, and Boston University. Not anymore. Master of ceremonies Marc Abrahams, who also edits the magazine, told The Associated…Open
