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SGS Unveils Establishment of Earth Sciences Data Analysis Center using AI Techniques

SGS Unveils Establishment of Earth Sciences Data Analysis Center using AI Techniques
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SGS Unveils Establishment of Earth Sciences Data Analysis Center using AI Techniques

SGS Unveils Establishment of Earth Sciences Data Analysis Center using AI Techniques

The Saudi Geological Survey (SGS) inaugurated on Thursday the works for establishing the Earth Sciences Data Analysis Center, one of the projects of the General Geological Survey Program, using artificial intelligence techniques during the founding meeting of the project implementation committee.

The event took place in the presence of several specialists from the public and private sectors, and experts from different countries around the world.

SGS spokesperson Tariq Aba Al-Khail said that the meeting focused on the participation of local and international bodies, companies specialized in data and mining from leading countries, such as Canada, Australia, Britain, South Africa, and China, as well as Saudi universities.

He added that the center's establishment aims to launch an advanced Saudi platform for earth sciences, which analyzes and develops all data and maximizes the benefit of its use, and build an extensive data system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for earth sciences.

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Plant Native to Sumatra Warms Up to About Temperature of Human Body

A flowering titan arum at Kew Gardens, London. Photograph: Clara Charles/AFP/Getty Images
A flowering titan arum at Kew Gardens, London. Photograph: Clara Charles/AFP/Getty Images
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Plant Native to Sumatra Warms Up to About Temperature of Human Body

A flowering titan arum at Kew Gardens, London. Photograph: Clara Charles/AFP/Getty Images
A flowering titan arum at Kew Gardens, London. Photograph: Clara Charles/AFP/Getty Images

This giant plant stinks to high heaven and warms up to about the temperature of a human body. It's the inflorescence of the titan arum, Amorphophallus titanum, a plant called a spadix that stands up to three metres tall, warms up to 36C at night and gives off the stench of a rotting corpse.

This wonder is actually a ruse to attract carrion flies and beetles to pollinate the small flowers that are tucked away at the base of the spadix inside a large bucket-shaped leafy wrapper, where the insects are trapped until the flowers are successfully pollinated, The Guardian reported.

A recent study revealed the plant’s pungent odours were made up of a stinky cocktail of sulphur chemicals, including the aptly named compound putrescine, which is given off by rotting animal carcasses.

This foul concoction is released only when the spadix warms up in short pulses.

The titan arum grows in the forests of Sumatra in Indonesia, and to add to its otherworldly qualities, the plant takes years to come into bloom for the first time, and when it does flower, the bloom only lasts a few days.