Technology and Tools

2+ hour, 15+ min ago   (478+ words) Muscat – Oman and Kazakhstan have agreed to establish a joint centre dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI) enabled mineral exploration, marking a new phase of cooperation in mining, technology and geological research. The memorandum was signed in Astana during the state…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (110+ words) Tsunami warning issued in US after massive 7.7 earthquake strikes Panama - A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Panama at a depth of six miles, with the epicenter located near Pitaloza Arriba. - The earthquake caused buildings to sway in…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (556+ words) After the recent Venezuelan and Colombian earthquakes, many stories have emerged about the involvement of AI tools. From mapping damage to coordinating donations and aid, AI was suddenly entering the realm of disaster management. One area where AI is beginning…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (588+ words) Researchers have released Pysammos, an open-source Python package that transforms particle-scale simulation data from the Discrete Element Method into the continuum fields such as pressure and stress needed to understand granular flows from landslides to magma....

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (551+ words) If you were living around 100 miles away from Yellowstone, and it BLEW UP, what would it look like? The AI videos below help us imagine it. To be clear, Yellowstone is not going to blow up. But in a creepy…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (715+ words) China plans to complete the first AI-driven geological map of Mars by 2028 as it prepares for the Tianwen-3 sample return mission. China plans to complete a full geological map of Mars by the end of 2028, creating what researchers describe as…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (242+ words) DOVER, Del., Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- GeoIntelX announced today a strategic partnership with the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG). Through this collaboration, more than 100 years of SEG publications, including technical research papers, maps, figures, and geological datasets will be integrated into GeoIntelX's…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (57+ words) Rockfill materials—the quarried rock masses that form the skeletons of embankment dams, road bases, and other heavy civil engineering structures—have long resisted quick, reliable measurement of their most important properties. Engineers need to know how the individual stones…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (382+ words) Fault-karst bodies are an important ultra-deep carbonate reservoir type in the Shunbei area, Tarim Basin, Northwest China. Their seismic responses commonly include localized high-amplitude anomalies and bead-like reflections. Automated identification remains difficult because the targets are sparse, their boundaries are…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago   (155+ words) For Emuobosa Patience Ojoboh, SPE, the future of reservoir engineering lies at the intersection of physics, geoscience, and artificial intelligence. As a PhD researcher in petroleum engineering at The University of Tulsa, she is tackling one of the industry's long-standing…...