Articles by Bob Yirka
Tech Xplore / New method allows AI to learn indefinitely
A team of AI researchers and computer scientists at the University of Alberta has found that current artificial networks used with deep-learning systems lose their ability to learn during extended training on new data. In ...
Phys.org / First analysis of soil near the moon's south pole suggests its surface was once covered in molten magma
India's Chandrayaan-3 mission was launched last summer and its Vikram lander touched down on the moon's surface last August. Shortly thereafter, it released a rover called Pragyan. Since that time, the rover has been meandering ...
Medical Xpress / Study reveals why orange netting packaging makes oranges look more appealing
People who shop for groceries at their local supermarket may have noticed that some of the fruit they purchase may not look the same at home as it did in the store—or more specifically, after it is removed from its packaging. ...
Medical Xpress / Meta-study results suggest most implicit bias training for health care providers has flawed methodology
A small team of psychologists and public health specialists from the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Old Dominion University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has found via analysis of data ...
Phys.org / Newly discovered, free-living eukaryote is the first known to have lost its mitochondria
An international team of geneticists and molecular biologists has discovered the first-known, free-living eukaryote to have lost its mitochondria. In their study, published in Nature Communications, the group found the eukaryote ...
Tech Xplore / New benchmarking tool evaluates the factuality of LLMs
A team of AI researchers and computer scientists from Cornell University, the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence has developed a benchmarking tool called WILDHALLUCINATIONS to evaluate ...
Phys.org / Paleontologists describe new examples of giant sea scorpions from the Silurian and Devonian in New South Wales
A team of paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History, the Australian Museum Research Institute, and the WB Clarke Geoscience Center, in Australia, has added new evidential data for pterygotid eurypterids ...
Phys.org / Study suggests video game playing may have mental health benefits under some conditions
A team of mental health, human behavior and economic specialists affiliated with several institutions in Japan has found that under the right conditions, playing video games may be good for mental health.
Medical Xpress / Large-scale brain imaging study reveals five patterns of age-related degeneration
Through a large-scale brain imaging study, an international research team has identified five patterns of age-related degeneration in older people experiencing mental decline. In their study, published in the journal Nature ...
Phys.org / Biochemists engineer proteins that can transition between assembly and disassembly via allosteric control
A team of biochemists at the University of Washington has developed a means for engineering proteins that can transition between assembly and disassembly via allosteric control. In their paper published in the journal Nature, ...
Science X / Best of Last Week—Japanese ancestry challenged, loophole in digital wallets, using AI to diagnose genetic disease
It was a good week for biological research as a trio of paleontologists from the University of Tsukuba, UC Berkeley, and Kyoto University found evidence of a new species of extinct walrus-like mammal that once roamed the ...
Phys.org / Seabird survey of Indo-Pacific atolls show their outsize impact on bird populations and nesting
A team of marine and avian biologists from the University of Auckland, the Karolinska Institute, the Nature Conservancy and the University of California has conducted a large-scale survey of birds nesting on Indo-Pacific ...
Tech Xplore / AI researchers introduce an LLM capable of generating text outputs of up to 10,000 words
A team of AI researchers at Tsinghua University, working with a colleague from Zhipu AI, has developed a large language model (LLM) called LongWriter that they claim is capable of generating text output of up to 10,000 words. ...
Phys.org / Computer simulations suggest more than half of people on Earth have limited access to safe drinking water
A multi-institutional team of environmental scientists has built a computer simulation showing that more than half of all people globally have limited access to safe drinking water. The findings are published in the journal ...
Phys.org / Study of Earth's rotation history shows deceleration has been in a staircase pattern
A multi-institutional team of geoscientists has found evidence that the Earth's rotation slows in a staircase pattern, with two stable periods that stand out. In their study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...
