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

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Mar 3, 2026, 5:40 pm183 ptsTrendingTop
For years, the Prairie Pothole Region has bothered me in a very specific way. On a map, it looks like a normal landscape: fields, gentle slopes, small streams. But hydrologically, it behaves like something else entirely. The surface is peppered with countless depressions—wetlands and "potholes"—that can…

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