Articles by Bob Yirka
Phys.org / Remarkable blue species of poison dart frog discovered in Brazilian Amazon
A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the National Museum of the Czech Republic, has discovered a new species of poison dart frog in the ...
Phys.org / How a leaf's symmetry and lobes impact its journey back to the tree
Two physicists from the Technical University of Denmark have found that leaf shape is a determining factor in the distance leaves travel as they fall from their tree. In their paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society ...
Tech Xplore / Upgraded technique for extracting uranium from seawater promises higher efficiency and lower costs
A team of chemists, materials scientists and engineers affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a colleague from Taiwan, has developed a new way to remove uranium from seawater that is much more efficient ...
Tech Xplore / Atmospheric water harvesting: Optimization of a hygroscopic hydrogel device improves efficiency
A small team of engineers from the U.S., Chile and Ireland has found a way to extract more water from drier air, allowing for water production in arid places like the Atacama Desert. Their paper is published in Device.
Tech Xplore / LegoGPT can design stable structures using standard LEGOs from text prompts
A team of engineers and AI specialists at Carnegie Mellon University has developed an AI application that can design stable structures from standard LEGOs using text prompts. In their study published on the arXiv preprint ...
Phys.org / Revisiting a famous marshmallow experiment: Children more likely to delay gratification if peer promises to wait as well
A team of psychologists at the University of Manchester, in the U.K., working with a colleague from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, in Morocco, has found that children tend to behave differently during the famous Stanford ...
Phys.org / People who use AI at work are perceived by colleagues as lazier and less competent, study finds
A trio of business analysts at Duke University has found that people who use AI apps at work are perceived by their colleagues as less diligent, lazier and less competent than those who do not use them.
Medical Xpress / Chatbot accuracy: Study evaluates medical advice from AI chatbots and other sources
A team of AI and medical researchers, affiliated with several institutions in the U.K. and the U.S. has tested the accuracy of medical information and advice given by LLMs to users. In their paper posted on the arXiv preprint ...
Medical Xpress / BabyBot: Soft robotic infant mimics feeding behaviors from birth to 6 months old
A combined team of roboticists from CREATE Lab, EPFL and Nestlé Research Lausanne, both in Switzerland, has developed a soft robot that was designed to mimic human infant motor development and the way infants feed.
Phys.org / Why honeyguides sometimes lead honey hunters to dangerous animals instead of bee colonies
A trio of researchers from institutions in Africa have explored whether honeyguides in Mozambique sometimes lead human hunters to dangerous animals as punishment for not giving them a proper reward on previous hunts. In their ...
Phys.org / Nine-year study shows mountain plants won't adapt fast enough to climate change
A team of plant biologists, geneticists and ecologists from the University of Georgia, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, the University of California and Davidson College has found via a nine-year study of Drummond's ...
Phys.org / An electronic band-aid that delivers therapy directly to organs
A team of biomedical engineers from China and the U.S. has developed a thin patch resembling a band-aid that can be applied to an internal organ to directly deliver therapeutic drugs. In their paper published in the journal ...
Phys.org / Facebook data used to study global human migration patterns
A team of statistical researchers at Meta, owner of Facebook, working with colleagues from the University of Hong Kong and Harvard University, has applied a specially designed algorithm to analyze Facebook data to track human ...
Phys.org / Possible evidence found of cuttlefish waving to each other as a form of communication
Sophie Cohen-Bodénès and Peter Neri, neuroscientists at École Normale Supérieure, in France, report possible evidence of cuttlefish communicating by waving their 'arms' at one another. Their paper is posted on the bioRxiv ...
Phys.org / Physicists uncover how geometric frustration shapes the rose's iconic blossom
Four physicists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Israel, have unraveled the mechanical process behind the growth of roses as they blossom into their unique shape. In their study published in the journal Science, ...
