Articles by Bob Yirka
Phys.org / Massive, long-lived trees discovered in the Tanzanian rainforest are a new species
A team of botanists with members from Muse–Museo delle Scienze, Udzungwa Corridor LTD, Via Grazia Deledda and the National Museum of Kenya has discovered a new species of tree growing in the mountainous rain forests of Tanzania. ...
Tech Xplore / A marine robot that can swim, crawl and glide untethered in the deepest parts of the ocean
A team of mechanical engineers at Beihang University, working with a deep-sea diving specialist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a mechanic from Zhejiang University, all in China, have designed, built, and tested ...
Tech Xplore / A new metric to quantify capabilities of AI systems in terms of human capabilities
A team of AI researchers at startup METR is proposing a new metric to quantify the capabilities of AI systems in terms of human capabilities. They have published a paper on the arXiv preprint server describing the new metric, ...
Phys.org / A possible way to generate electricity using Earth's rotational energy
A trio of physicists from Princeton University, CIT's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Spectral Sensor Solutions, all in the U.S., is proposing the possibility of generating electricity using energy from the rotation of the ...
Phys.org / Lunar far side samples bolster theory that the moon was once covered in magma
A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong Institute of Geological Sciences, all in China, has found evidence in soil samples collected from the far ...
Medical Xpress / Meta-analysis finds that menstrual cycle does not change cognitive abilities
Business analysts from the University of Melbourne, in Australia, the Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore, and Olin Business School, in the U.S., report evidence showing that women do not experience changes to ...
Phys.org / Oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur discovered in Morocco
A team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in the U.K., the University of Birmingham, also in the U.K., and Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, in Morocco, has unearthed the oldest known cerapodan ornithischian ...
Tech Xplore / Deep-learning system uses smartphone camera for heart rate monitoring
A team of medical researchers and engineers at Google Research has developed a way to use the front-facing camera on a smartphone to monitor a patient's heart rate. The team has published a paper on the technology on the ...
Phys.org / Iron shackles found at Ghozza suggest at least some gold miners during Egypt's Ptolemaic period were slaves
A historian with Laboratoire HiSoMA, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, in France, has theorized that iron shackles found at a dig site in Ghozza, Egypt, suggest that at least some of the workers at ...
Phys.org / Upgrading keratin to make a biodegradable plastic
A team of materials scientists from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, the University of Milano-Bicocca, and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia via Morego, all in Italy, has found a way to use keratin to make a type of biodegradable ...
Phys.org / Sewage sludge microbiota can help clean up toxic tetrachloroethene pollution
A pair of environmental engineers at the National University of Singapore has found that many bacteria in common sewer water are able to detoxify tetrachloroethene. In their study published in the journal ACS ES&T Engineering, ...
Phys.org / D-Wave claims its quantum computers can solve a problem of scientific relevance much faster than classical methods
A team of quantum computer researchers at quantum computer maker D-Wave, working with an international team of physicists and engineers, is claiming that its latest quantum processor has been used to run a quantum simulation ...
Phys.org / How a rapidly growing population of crocs has been impacting Australia's Northern Territories ecosystem
A team of marine biologists, environmental researchers and land management specialists affiliated with several institutions in Australia, working with a colleague from Canada, has conducted a study of the ecological impact ...
Phys.org / Melanosome patterns in Mesozoic mammals suggest they had dark, uniformly dull fur coloring
An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in fossilized Mesozoic mammals, that they most likely had dark, uniformly dull fur coloring. In their paper ...
Phys.org / Unoccupied housing in China's urban areas emitting massive amounts of carbon, study finds
A group of construction managers and real estate specialists at Tsinghua University, in China, has found that the unusually high number of unoccupied residential units in China's cities is responsible for releasing massive ...
