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Researchers at The University of South Australia have successfully tested a system that can monitor soil moisture using just a standard camera and an AI algorithm. The system holds huge potential as a simple, affordable solution for smart agriculture, allowing for automated, precision irrigation.

A collaboration at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Harvard Medical School (HMS), and the CIC bioGUNE, a member of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance, in Spain, and the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB, University of Luxembourg) has developed a computer-guided design tool called IRENE, which significantly helps increase the efficiency of cell conversions by predicting highly effective combinations of cell type-specific TFs.

Researchers at TU Graz demonstrate a new design method for particularly energy-saving artificial neural networks that get by with extremely few signals and - similar to Morse code - also assign meaning to the pauses between the signals.

An international team of scientists performed theoretical and experimental research on a new high-temperature superconductor, yttrium hydride (YH6). Until 2015, 138 K (or 166 K under pressure) was the record of high-temperature superconductivity. Room-temperature superconductivity, which would have been laughable five years ago, has become a reality. Right now, the whole point is to attain room-temperature superconductivity at lower pressures. Scientists reported that YH6 displays a superconducting transition at ?224 K at 166 GPa.

The researchers have developed a novel connection which can help in the design of more efficient multi-agent AI systems.

University of Tokyo scientists studied the adaptive immune system as a kind of artificial intelligence that can be trained to produce the correct response to invasion by pathogens. This work may lead to more effective vaccines and immune boosting therapies.