One of the biggest conversations in the world of technology nowadays is how artificial intelligence -- or AI -- can or should be applied in the real world. There are seemingly endless applications, ...

The first detailed maps from underneath an ice shelf in Antarctica have revealed previously unknown shapes and melting patterns. While researchers are yet to fully understand what causes the patterns ...

Using satellite data since 2019, researchers have created a map featuring nearly three billion buildings around the world.

A recent study has revealed a startling public health threat: About 17 million people are at risk of gastrointestinal problems due to excessive sulfate levels in groundwater. This alarming finding ...

Using more than 652,000 observations uploaded to iNaturalist (left), UC Berkeley scientists created an AI model to predict the distribution of 2,221 species of plants around the state. To train the ...

Only a fraction of the Great Lakes' bottom has been mapped, and those low-resolution charts were completed decades ago, according to the Great Lakes Observing System. The organization has been pushing ...

Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean gave up. Now, 40 years ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, has returned its first data. One of the seven instruments aboard, the Diviner Lunar Radiometer ...

Jennifer Boehme spent her childhood combing Florida beaches for treasures, and now she leads a far more ambitious exploration, spearheading an effort to map the bottom of the Great Lakes. As executive ...