As Florida continues to face one of its worst dengue outbreaks in nearly a century, an innovative mosquito trap created by University of South Florida startup Digitomy is helping curb the spread of the virus and other mosquito-borne diseases. The smart trap contains patented AI technology and has achieved more than 98% accuracy in identifying mosquito species during laboratory testing.

Monitoring the growth dynamics of field-grown cabbage is essential for stable vegetable production and precision agriculture. 

A Southwest Research Institute-led study used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine ice grains streaming from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, just the third object from beyond our solar system ever identified. The observations point to tiny aggregates of water ice and dust, about a micron or smaller. The grains’ spectral characteristics differ from those of ice grains in most previously studied comets but resemble the spectra of some icy worlds beyond Neptune. The results suggest that the icy building blocks of planets around other stars may share a common range of physical properties with those in our own solar system, with tiny grains ranging in composition from relatively pure ice to ice mixed with dust.

A new deep-learning network can simultaneously identify and count female and male litchi flowers from images, a task that previously required time-consuming manual observation.