Articles by Bob Yirka
Medical Xpress / Brain study suggests regions that grew the most during evolution are most susceptible to aging
An international team of neuroscientists and anthropologists has found that the parts of the brain that grew the most during human evolution are the parts that are now the most susceptible to aging.
Tech Xplore / Researchers find covert racism against people who speak African American English in LLMs
A small team of AI researchers with members from the Allen Institute for AI, Stanford University, and the University of Chicago, all in the U.S., has found that popular LLMs exhibit covert racism against people who speak ...
Tech Xplore / Google's GameNGen simulates parts of video game Doom
A team of researchers from Google Research, Google Deep Mind and Tel Aviv University reports that it is possible to use machine learning applications to recreate and simulate parts or all of an existing video game.
Phys.org / Researchers model physics of the pumping technique used to achieve air on a skateboard half-pipe
A team of engineers and mathematicians from ETH Zürich, working with colleagues from The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, and ATR Institute International, both in Japan, has successfully modeled the physics involved ...
Phys.org / A way to recover silver from dead solar panels with 98% efficiency
A multi-institutional team of chemists, metallurgists and engineers has developed a highly efficient way to retrieve silver from dead solar panels. Their paper is published in Environmental Technology & Innovation.
Medical Xpress / Uncovering the mechanics behind ketamine's rapid antidepressant effects
A team of brain and mental health specialists in China and the U.S. has uncovered some of the mechanics behind ketamine's rapid antidepressant effects. In their study, published in the journal Science, the group administered ...
Phys.org / Researchers find academic equivalent of a Great Gatsby Curve in science mentorships
A team of economic and business researchers from Southeast University, in China, University College London and Queen Mary University of London in the U.K. has found what they describe as the academic equivalent of a Great ...
Phys.org / Researchers propose a theory to explain how the Menga dolmen was built
A multi-institutional team of historians, geologists, physicists, and archaeologists in Spain has developed a theory to explain how a neolithic culture could have built the Menga dolmen, an ancient structure consisting of ...
Phys.org / Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts
Via testing with a skin stand-in, a trio of physicists at Technical University of Denmark has ranked the types of paper that are the most likely to cause a paper cut. In an article published in Physical Review E, Sif Fink ...
Phys.org / New study shows Alaskan snow crab population collapse in Bering Sea due to climate change
A team of marine biologists from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has found that climate change is the reason for the population collapse of Alaskan snow crabs in the Bering Sea.
Tech Xplore / Engineers develop new two-dimensional, low-power-consumption field-effect transistor
A team of electrical and computer engineers at Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with one colleague from City University of Hong Kong and another with Fudan ...
Phys.org / Best of Last Week—How humans really killed mammoths, making AI systems smarter, mitochondria fling their DNA
It was an interesting week for the study of human behavior as a team of cognitive scientists at MIT found what they believe is the reason that laws are written in an incomprehensible style—because it confers what they describe ...
Medical Xpress / Study suggests even mild concussions can have lifelong brain impacts
A team of neuroscientists, brain specialists and psychiatrists, led by a group at Cambridge University, in the U.K, has found evidence suggesting that minor brain injuries that occur early in life, may have health impacts ...
Phys.org / Bioengineers develop a new environmentally friendly adhesive polymer
A team of bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, has developed a new kind of environmentally friendly adhesive polymer. In their study, published in the journal Science, the group used an electrophilic stabilizer ...
Phys.org / Evidence found of Europeans using cocaine as far back as the 17th century
A team of biomedical and medicinal specialists from the University of Milan, working with a colleague from Foundation IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, has found evidence of cocaine use by at least ...
