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4-Nov-2025

Taft Armandroff and Brian Schmidt elected to lead Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors

GMTO Corporation
Business Announcement

Taft Armandroff and Brian Schmidt Elected to Lead Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors

4-Nov-2025

A sticky solution for enhanced pesticide deposition

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have developed a pesticide delivery method using liquid marbles that stick to plant surfaces instead of bouncing off, reducing pesticide waste and environmental contamination.

Journal

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

4-Nov-2025

University of Tennessee's Kim receives ACM CCS Distinguished Paper Award

University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Grant and Award Announcement

Doowon Kim, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, received a Distinguished Paper Award at The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS).

4-Nov-2025

New crop-weed vision model boosts accuracy and runs on farm robots in real time

Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team introduces KDOSS-Net, a new vision framework that not only segments crops and weeds at the pixel level but also predicts vegetation beyond the camera’s current field of view.

Journal

Plant Phenomics

4-Nov-2025

Digital divide narrows but gaps remain for Australians as GenAI use surges

RMIT University
Reports and Proceedings

The Australian Digital Inclusion Index has found almost half of Australians recently used generative AI tools, raising new opportunities and challenges for digital inclusion.

Funder

Australian Research Council, Telstra

4-Nov-2025

AI-powered vision model accurately estimates occluded fruit size in vertical farming systems

Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team has now developed an advanced computer vision system that precisely measures the size of oriental melons grown in vertical cultivation systems, even when the fruits are heavily obscured by leaves.

Journal

Plant Phenomics

4-Nov-2025

sAI-Powered TM-WSNet boosts precision rubber tree monitoring through 3D point cloud segmentation

Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team has developed a cutting-edge deep learning framework, TM-WSNet, that dramatically improves the accuracy of rubber tree identification and measurement in dense plantation environments.

Journal

Plant Phenomics