The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. If you want to understand why some sandcastles are tall and have intricate ...

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, ...

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