Articles by Bob Yirka
Tech Xplore / Roboticists develop a bird-like robot that can jump into the air to launch itself into flight
A team of roboticists at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, working with a colleague from the University of California, has designed, built and demonstrated a bird-like robot that can launch itself into flight using ...
Phys.org / Unique microbial communities discovered beneath frozen surface of Antarctica's Lake Enigma
An international team of polar researchers has found several types of microbiota living in the water below the frozen surface of Antarctica's Lake Enigma. In their study, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, ...
Phys.org / Study confirms two forms of longtooth groupers in Asia are separate species of fish
A team of marine biologists from the Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, also in Japan, and the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, has found via genetic ...
Phys.org / Antarctica's Conger ice shelf was weakening for decades before collapse, scientists find
An international team of oceanographers, Antarctic specialists and meteorologists has found evidence that the collapse of Antarctica's Conger ice shelf in 2022 was due to ice melting and weakening that had progressed for ...
Phys.org / Best of last year: The top Phys.org articles of 2024
It was a good year for space science as Sumner Starrfield, an astronomer at Arizona State University, described what was to appear as a huge star exploding in the night sky, in a once-in-a-lifetime event this past fall. A ...
Phys.org / Mid-Pleistocene climate change may have shaped hominin development and dispersal
A multi-institutional team of evolutionary specialists, climatologists and sociologists has found evidence that climate change during and after the Mid-Pleistocene likely shaped hominin development in parts of what is now ...
Tech Xplore / AI researchers suggest open LLMs are not as open as claimed
A trio of AI researchers from Cornell University, Signal Foundation, and Now Institute have published a Perspective piece in the journal Nature, arguing that well-known open LLMs are not nearly as open as their makers claim.
Phys.org / Indian Ocean study finds an exception to Ekman's theory of wind-driven ocean currents
A team of planetary scientists and oceanographers from NOAA, the Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services, and the University of Zagreb, has found an example of an exception to Ekman's theory of wind-driven ocean ...
Medical Xpress / Infants exposed to animals on farms are less likely to develop allergies, study finds
A team of pediatricians, and infectious and inflammatory disease specialists at the University of Gothenburg, working with colleagues from Skaraborg Hospital, all in Sweden, has found a lower incidence of allergies in infants ...
Phys.org / 3D ocean model shows ocean acidification moving deeper as atmospheric emissions increase
A pair of environmental physicists at the Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, has built a 3D model of the world's oceans and their currents to learn more about the depths that ocean acidification ...
Phys.org / 3D-printed particles propel themselves across the surface of a fluid
A small team of physicists at the University of Amsterdam has demonstrated the ability of 3D-printed particles to propel themselves across the surface of a fluid, given the right fuel. The group has posted a paper describing ...
Phys.org / How a species of ground squirrel manages to go without food and water over the winter months
A team of molecular and physiology specialists at the Yale University School of Medicine has uncovered some of the hibernating secrets of thirteen-lined ground squirrels, and have partly explained how it manages to avoid ...
Tech Xplore / Balloon system can produce localized solar electricity for the ground below
A team of engineers and environmental scientists from Mälardalen University, in Sweden, Southwest Jiaotong University, in China and Guizhou University, also in China, has developed a balloon system for producing and delivering ...
Phys.org / Archaeologists suspect shipwreck found near Kenya may be from Vasco da Gama's last voyage
A pair of archaeologists with the University of Coimbra, working with a colleague from the National Museum of Kenya and another from Bergen Maritime Museum, believe a shipwreck found near the southernmost part of the African ...
Phys.org / Higher-density storage technique could allow diamond disk to store equivalent of 2,000 Blu-ray discs
A team of engineers at the University of Science and Technology of China has developed a new way to code data onto a diamond with higher density than prior methods. In their paper published in the journal Nature Photonics, ...
