AI can simulate the dead—but should it?

Scientists have used the power of AI to analyze and predict the conversion of liquid radioactive waste into solid glass waste forms, increasing the amount of waste that goes into each container of glass produced and reducing operational risks, mission duration and costs. The research team, from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, published its work in the April 15 edition of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids.

The peopling of South America has long been debated, with various routes proposed for how they spread across the subcontinent. However, routes along the Atlantic coast were typically much younger than their Pacific counterparts, leaving a significant gap in our understanding of when and how early hunter-gatherers traveled along the South American Atlantic coast.