Articles by Bob Yirka
Tech Xplore / Apple engineers create expressive Pixar-like table lamp with AI capabilities
A team of engineers at Apple has developed an expressive table lamp that interacts with a user rather than simply carrying out instructions. The group has posted a paper on the arXiv preprint server describing the factors ...
Phys.org / Soft tissue of a plesiosaur reveals it had scales similar to those of sea turtles
A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of plesiosaur had scales on its flippers similar to modern sea turtle species. For their study, published ...
Phys.org / Evidence of cannibalism by ancient Magdalenian people found in cave in Poland
A team of archaeologists, paleontologists, and historians from several institutions in Spain, Germany, and Poland, has found evidence of Magdalenian people from approximately 18,000 years ago, living in a cave in what is ...
Phys.org / Genetic study shows London's underground mosquitoes evolved from Egyptian species
A large international team of researchers has discovered that the mosquitoes that live in London's underground subway evolved from a Middle Eastern species over thousands of years. In their paper posted on the bioRxiv preprint ...
Medical Xpress / Common bacterial infection may trigger lung transplant rejection
A large team of surgeons and organ transplant researchers affiliated with multiple institutions across the U.S. has found an association between lung transplant patients who become infected with the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa ...
Tech Xplore / Ronaldo's Siuuu celebration: Whole-body training model allows robots to mimic famous athlete moves
A team of AI and robotics researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, working with a pair of colleagues from technology company NVIDIA, has developed a new model for training robots to move like human athletes.
Tech Xplore / Academic researchers find a way to train an AI reasoning model for less than $50
A small team of AI researchers from Stanford University and the University of Washington has found a way to train an AI reasoning model for a fraction of the price paid by big corporations that produce widely known products ...
Phys.org / Solar cycle study reveals trends in charged particle numbers and interactions
A large team of researchers working on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Collaboration, which has been analyzing eleven years' worth of data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) aboard the International Space Station, ...
Phys.org / Flat patches on ancient Europeans' teeth reveal possible cheek piercing tradition
A biological anthropologist at the University of Coimbra in Portugal is hypothesizing that the mysterious flat patches found on the sides of teeth in ancient Europeans may have been due to the placement of labrets. In his ...
Tech Xplore / Constitutional classifiers: New security system drastically reduces chatbot jailbreaks
A large team of computer engineers and security specialists at AI app maker Anthropic has developed a new security system aimed at preventing chatbot jailbreaks. Their paper is published on the arXiv preprint server.
Phys.org / Radiocarbon dating of artifacts and bones shows North American Indigenous population changes over 2,000 years
A small team of archaeologists and anthropologists from the University of Wyoming, Michigan State University, and the Desert Research Institute, all in the U.S., has used radiocarbon dating of bone and other artifacts found ...
Phys.org / Certain animal navigation abilities found to operate at or near quantum limit of magnetic field detection
A pair of physicists at the University of Crete has found that some types of biological magnetoreceptors used by various creatures to navigate, operate at or near the quantum limit. In their paper published in the journal ...
Phys.org / Extending a paradox: Quantum mechanics experiment measures a pulse of light in 37 dimensions
A team of physicists affiliated with multiple institutions in China has measured a pulse of light in 37 dimensions. In their paper published in Science Advances, the group explains that their experiment was meant to demonstrate ...
Phys.org / Radioactive dust from March 2022 Saharan dust storm was not of French origin, study finds
An international team of climate scientists has found that dust brought to parts of Europe in 2022 from the Saharan desert was slightly radioactive, but its source was not from French nuclear bomb testing back in the 1960s. ...
Medical Xpress / Rapid antigen-based assay can detect tick-borne diseases before symptoms arise
A team of biomolecular engineers, pathologists, and internal medicine specialists at the University of Texas Medical Branch, working with a colleague from the University of Houston, has developed a quick test for tick-borne ...
