"Crucial climate questions are spurring researchers to tap into vast repositories of handwritten weather records languishing in archives all over the world. For example, climate scientist Derrick Muheki spent two months scanning thousands of pages of weather logs in a remote weather station in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and his MeteoSaver machine-learning tool was able to transcribe 90% of the contents."
"Material deep inside Earth - thousands of kilometres down, near the planet's core - has undergone a mysterious shift. Scientists spotted signs of the change in measurements of the planet's gravity, recorded around 2007 by the US-German GRACE satellites. Researchers think that the movement could be linked to a type of mineral called a perovskite, in rocks near the bottom of Earth's mantle, that changed its structural configuration in response to the crushing pressures deep inside the planet."
Researchers are applying AI tools to decode animal communications with the goal of enabling interspecies conversations. Climate scientists are digitizing handwritten weather logs worldwide to recover historical observations; tools like MeteoSaver transcribed 90% of scanned pages from a remote station in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, aiding long-term rainforest climate records. Teams are also digitizing 19th-century Danish ship logbooks covering the Atlantic and North Sea. Geophysicists detected a mysterious shift deep in Earth's mantle around 2007, possibly caused by a perovskite mineral changing structure under extreme pressure. Neurobiologists mapped the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi nervous system to explain its orientation in the ocean.
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