Articles by Bob Yirka
Phys.org / Study suggests disruptive protests by fringe groups give moderate groups more support
A team of social scientists at the Social Change Lab, in the U.K., working with a sociologist from the University of South Carolina, has found evidence to support what has come to be known as "the positive radical flank effect"—where ...
Phys.org / A much faster way to encode DNA with usable digital data
An international team of molecular biologists, computer scientists and physicists has found a way to encode useable digital data onto DNA strands 350 times faster than current approaches. In their study, published in the ...
Tech Xplore / OpenAI unveils sCM, a new model that generates video media 50 times faster than current diffusion models
Two experts with the OpenAI team have developed a new kind of continuous-time consistency model (sCM) that they claim can generate video media 50 times faster than models currently in use. Cheng Lu and Yang Song have published ...
Phys.org / Future atmospheric rivers could bring catastrophic ocean level rise off the West Coast, simulation study shows
A team of climate specialists from the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Lab, Texas A&M University, and Pennsylvania State University has found evidence for a rise in ocean levels during ...
Medical Xpress / People with no sense of smell found to have abnormal breathing patterns
A team of neuroscientists at The Azrieli National Institute for Human Brain Imaging and Research, in Israel, has found that people who have lost the ability to smell have slightly different breathing patterns than those with ...
Phys.org / Researchers model how the first use of the wheel may have developed
A pair of engineers and a historian have teamed up together to model the means by which the first use of the wheel may have happened. In their paper published in Royal Society Open Science, Lee Alacoque, from the University ...
Phys.org / Study suggests frogs and toads will face new risks as water habitats dry up due to global warming
A small international team has found that anurans such as frogs and toads will be facing increased risks to their survival in the coming years due to water habitats drying up as a result of global warming.
Phys.org / Oriental hornets do not get sick or die when consuming very large amounts of alcohol, study shows
A team of behavioral ecologists, zoologists and crop protection specialists from Tel Aviv University reports that Oriental hornets have the highest-known tolerance to alcohol in the animal kingdom. In their study published ...
Phys.org / Tracks left by a bird-sized dinosaur suggest it used wings to run faster
A small international team of biologists, geologists and paleontologists has found evidence that a bird-sized dinosaur from the early Cretaceous used its wings to run faster. In their study published in the Proceedings of ...
Tech Xplore / Short duration voltage application to silicon anodes shows potential for restoring Li-Si battery capacity
A team of engineers, chemists and materials scientists at Stanford University, has found that applying short duration voltage to some types of anodes in Li–Si batteries, can restore some of their capacity. In their paper ...
Tech Xplore / Heterojunction back contact solar cell reaches 27.09% efficiency in tests
A team of engineers at China's LONGi Central R&D Institute, working with colleagues from Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, reports that its heterojunction back contact (HBC) solar cell has achieved efficiencies as ...
Phys.org / Smallest dinosaur egg ever found confirmed in China
A team of paleontologists, geoscientists and evolutionary specialists affiliated with multiple institutions in China has found that a fossilized egg unearthed in 2021 is the smallest dinosaur egg ever found. In their paper ...
Phys.org / Scientists find southern killer whales of the Pacific have access to enough food, deepening mystery of their struggles
A pair of marine mammal scientists at The University of British Columbia, has found that claims that a lack of access to salmon is what is driving the crash in population numbers for southern resident killer whales of the ...
Tech Xplore / DeepMind researchers find LLMs can serve as effective mediators
A team of AI researchers with Google's DeepMind London group has found that certain large language models (LLMs) can serve as effective mediators between groups of people with differing viewpoints regarding a given topic. ...
Phys.org / Could injecting diamond dust into the atmosphere help cool the planet?
A multi-institutional team of climatologists, meteorologists and Earth scientists has found evidence that dropping diamond dust from an airplane into the atmosphere could cool the planet. In their study published in the journal ...
