The wetland puzzle that stumped hydrology for decades—how physics and AI joined forces to predict unmeasured regions

For years, the Prairie Pothole Region has bothered me in a very specific way. On a map, it looks like a normal landscape: ...

What Happens When Ag AI Gets Super-Detailed?

The other key technology is a “recommendation engine” that uses the insight power for which AI is famous – looking at where ...
Western Michigan University

Student fieldwork reimagined through virtual reality

The GEOS 1000 pilot combined 3D printing and virtual reality (VR) to help students taking the Western Essential Studies course learn about topography maps and give them an engaging fieldwork ...

Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...
Purdue University

Purdue radar technology estimates location, orientation, radius of underground pipes

Purdue University engineers have developed a patent-pending method to decrease hazardous strikes to underground utility pipes during construction projects.