Science Dinosaurs Dinosaur'mummies' prove some dinos had hooves'Edmontosaurus annectens' stormed around North America during the Late Cretaceous. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. For the first time, paleontologists have successfully reconstructed the profiles of two massive, duck-billed dinosaurs, right down to their pebbled skin and unexpected hooves. Based in part on remains recovered decades ago in the badlands of Wyoming, the pair of specimens were preserved only thanks to an extremely rare, delicate "mummification" process. At around 39 feet long and weighing about 6.2 tons, was one of the largest and most common dinosaurs in present day North America during the Late Cretaceous period.

Just don't expect to fly any of these Cold War relics. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Over a dozen vintage planes are currently scattered across an aircraft boneyard in northern Wyoming. If you can travel about 85 miles east of Yellowstone National Park to Big Horn County, relics such as a Lockheed P-2 Neptune could be yours for as low as $25--just don't expect to fly away in any of your new purchases. But they're county assets, and the county is selling them," Big Horn County Airport manager Paul Thur told Wyoming's earlier this month.

In July, some of the brightest minds in American technology descended on Washington to celebrate a major milestone: the launch of President Donald Trump's bold initiative to ensure the United States remains the world's unrivaled leader in artificial intelligence (AI). Let me be blunt: the AI arms race is no longer theoretical. And we cannot afford to come in second place. In business, if you don't constantly adapt and innovate, you lose. If we fail to lead in AI, we risk surrendering our economic and national security edge to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) -- a regime that seeks to challenge American technological supremacy and reshape the global order in its authoritarian image.

In a bizarre turn of events, two AI chatbots are running for elected office for the first time--ever. VIC is campaigning for mayor in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and AI Steve is running for Parliament in the UK. Reporter Vittoria Elliot interviewed both of the bots and the people behind them. She explains their motivations, and if any of this is even legal. Meanwhile, reporter David Gilbert talks about how Google and Microsofts' AI chatbots are refusing to confirm who won the 2020 election.

Victor Miller is running for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, with an unusual campaign promise: If elected, he will not be calling the shots--an AI bot will. VIC, the Virtual Integrated Citizen, is a ChatGPT-based chatbot that Miller created. And Miller says the bot has better ideas--and a better grasp of the law--than many people currently serving in government. "I realized that this entity is way smarter than me, and more importantly, way better than some of the outward-facing public servants I see," he says. According to Miller, VIC will make the decisions and Miller will be its "meat puppet," attending meetings, signing documents, and otherwise doing the corporeal job of running the city.

Wind power is a powerful tool for reducing carbon emissions that cause climate change. The turbines, however, can be a threat to birds and bats, which is why experts are looking for--and finding--ways to eliminate the danger. The US government has allocated $13.5 million to look for solutions. But, already a Boulder, Colorado company has produced a camera- and AI-based technology that can recognize eagles, hawks and other raptors as they approach in enough time to pause turbines in their flight path. Their tool, called IdentiFlight, can detect 5.62 times more bird flights than human observers alone, and with an accuracy rate of 94 percent.

One of the most powerful supercomputers in the world has been brought online in the US and will be asked to apply its considerable artificial intelligence to some of the most challenging projects out there, from astrophysics and climate, to clean energy technologies. The Perlmutter system, a Hewlett-Packard-built Cray EX supercomputer, was unveiled at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) in California, part of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and is "the fastest on the planet", according to Nvidia, the chip manufacturer supplying much of its graphics hardware. "The Perlmutter supercomputer will help inspire the next generation of scientists and innovators, allowing the US and Department of Energy to remain a leader in using scientific computation to answer our greatest questions," said David Turk, the US Department of Energy's deputy secretary, at its launch. "As we continue to enhance and deploy computing platforms like this, our national labs will only be better positioned to develop solutions to today's toughest problems, from climate change to cyber security." The machine is powered by 6,159 Nvidia A100 Tensor Core graphics processing units, rendering it capable of delivering almost four exaflops or a quintillion floating-point operations per second, according to Nvidia.

With the help of artificial intelligence, BP says it needs 40% fewer workers to keep its natural gas ... [ ] flowing in Wyoming. A visitor to one of BP's natural gas fields in Wyoming a few years ago might have noticed an odd sight: smartphones in plastic bags tied to pumps with zip ties. This was an early test of a multistate initiative by the oil giant to link a network of Wi-Fi sensors to an artificial intelligence system--one that now operates the Wamsutter field in Wyoming with far less human oversight than before. Artificial intelligence has come to the oil patch, accelerating a technical change that is transforming the conditions for the oil and gas industry's 150,000 U.S. workers. Giant energy companies like Shell and BP are investing billions to bring artificial intelligence to new refineries, oilfields and deepwater drilling platforms.

With the help of artificial intelligence, BP says it needs 40% fewer workers to keep its natural gas flowing in Wyoming. A visitor to one of BP's natural gas fields in Wyoming a few years ago might have noticed an odd sight: smartphones in plastic bags tied to pumps with zip ties. This was an early test of a multistate initiative by the oil giant to link a network of Wi-Fi sensors to an artificial intelligence system--one that now operates the Wamsutter field in Wyoming with far less human oversight than before. Artificial intelligence has come to the oil patch, accelerating a technical change that is transforming the conditions for the oil and gas industry's 150,000 U.S. workers. Giant energy companies like Shell and BP are investing billions to bring artificial intelligence to new refineries, oilfields and deepwater drilling platforms.

By 2025 the aim is for 3.5 million tons more of "permanent, quantifiable greenhouse gas reductions." That would be lot of cuts--akin to the tailpipe output of 2.6 million passenger cars. One of the best spots to reduce emissions is right in BP's oil and gas fields. BP figures that half of its fugitive methane emissions--a fancy way of saying natural gas leaking out of pumps and pipes--come from its operations in the Lower 48. And a good portion of those happen in mature fields like the one near Wamsutter, in the Great Divide Basin of Wyoming.