Scanning electron microscopy reveals the shape and texture of a quartz sand grain from the Mississippi River. The pictured sand grain is about 200 micrometers in length. Credit: Michael Hasson, ...

Scanning electron microscopy reveals the shape and texture of a quartz sand grain from the Mississippi River. The pictured sand grain is about 200 micrometers in length. (Image credit: Michael Hasson) ...

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 ...

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.

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"Our study shows that different parts of a material, and even different grains of sand, can behave in very different ways during the same impact event," said team leader Ryan Hurley, associate ...

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Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...