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: ...
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 ...

A rare six-planet alignment is lighting up the sky this week. Here’s how to see it.

Step outside just after sunset and you may catch an unusual sight: six planets strung across the sky in a gentle arc. The ...

How cells work together: The mathematics behind biological shapes

How do biological cells join forces to form a structure? In her Ph.D. research, Daphne Nesenberend uses mathematics to show ...

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 ...
Ohio's Country Journal

Evaluating winter wheat stands

Dry soil conditions this past fall, especially in Northwest Ohio, caused delayed wheat germination and emergence. As we approach Feekes 5 growth stage, when leaf sheaths are strongly erect, it is ...