Geologists studying Stonehenge have ruled out northeast Scotland as the origin of the six-ton Altar Stone, overturning a prominent theory from 2024 and deepening the mystery of the Neolithic monument, SciTechDaily reported. The sandstone slab measures 4.9 meters long and lies flat on the ground beneath the collapsed upright of the Great Trilithon, according to … Read more
“NASA’s Dragonfly mission will simply blow your mind,” Nicky Fox, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, said in an announcement reported by FOX Weather. Space enthusiasts now have a chance to send their names nearly a billion miles away aboard NASA’s upcoming Dragonfly rotorcraft bound for Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Participants … Read more
Researchers have trained a machine-learning model on fossil records instead of text to reconstruct hundreds of millions of years of Earth’s biodiversity changes in unprecedented detail, Nature reported. The large-data approach allows scientists to interpret rock strata. Training Models on Rock Strata Instead of Text Large language models typically analyze written text to predict statistically … Read more