Articles by Bob Yirka
Phys.org / High velocity gas-clump in Milky Way neighborhood may be a dark galaxy
A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found evidence suggesting that a "gas clump" in a fast-moving cloud in the neighborhood of the Milky Way ...
Medical Xpress / Regular chicken consumption linked to higher risk of early death from gastrointestinal cancers
A team of health researchers at the National Institute of Gastroenterology, in Italy, has found an association between regularly eating poultry and early death due to digestive system cancers. In their study published in ...
Phys.org / New evidence moves early giant crocodile further from modern alligator on family tree
An international team of paleontologists, geologists, geoscientists and Earth scientists has found evidence that a type of giant crocodile that lived millions of years ago in what is now North America is not closely related ...
Phys.org / Global estimate finds mangrove forests nurture vast populations of commercially important marine species
An international team of researchers with a variety of backgrounds has worked together to calculate a global estimate of the abundance of commercially important fish and invertebrates supported by mangrove forests. In their ...
Phys.org / A possible explanation for why there is so much molecular hydrogen in space
Two materials physicists at The University of Sydney have found a possible explanation for the huge amount of molecular hydrogen in space. In their study published in the journal Communications Chemistry, Yuzhen Guo and David ...
Phys.org / How bats multitask in order to drink during flight
A team of mechanical and biological engineers at Cornell University and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Brown University and Virginia Tech has learned how some bats are able to multitask while drinking water ...
Phys.org / Variation in exhaled droplet characteristics may explain why some people are disease 'superspreaders'
A team of infectious disease specialists and environmental engineers at Université Claude Bernard Lyon's, École Centrale de Lyon, in France, and the University of Rome La Sapienza, in Italy, has found via experiments that ...
Tech Xplore / Microsoft introduces an AI model that runs on regular CPUs
A group of computer scientists at Microsoft Research, working with a colleague from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, has introduced Microsoft's new AI model that runs on a regular CPU instead of a GPU. The researchers ...
Phys.org / Revamping ultracold liquid helium microscopy to produce high-resolution images of proteins
A team of researchers at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in the U.K., has re-examined an old liquid-helium-cooled electron microscope, discovered the reason for the lack of improvement in the ...
Phys.org / Ancient Greenland rocks in Iceland reveal effects of Late Antique Little Ice Age
A trio of researchers has found evidence of the impact of the Late Antique Little Ice Age on Iceland almost 1,500 years ago. In their paper published in the journal Geology, Christopher Spencer, Thomas Gernon and Ross Mitchell ...
Tech Xplore / New quantum-based navigation system 50 times more accurate than traditional GPS
A team of researchers at Q-CTRL, a quantum infrastructure software-maker based in Sydney, Australia, has announced the successful demonstration of its newly developed quantum navigation system called "Ironstone Opal."
Medical Xpress / Stimulating the retina to allow people to see a brand new color
A team of engineers, computer scientists and ophthalmologists at the University of California, Berkeley, working with a pair of colleagues at the University of Washington, has developed a technique for stimulating the retina ...
Phys.org / Microplastics discovered in caddisfly casings from the 1970s suggest long-term contamination
A team of biologists working at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, a research museum in the Netherlands, has found evidence of caddisfly larvae using microplastics to build their casings as far back as the 1970s.
Phys.org / Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole
A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' Center for Exoplanet Science and another from the European Southern Observatory, has confirmed ...
Tech Xplore / Giving quadcopter drones the ability to carry out precise flight maneuvers autonomously
A team of cyber-systems researchers, engineers, optical specialists and roboticists at Zhejiang University, in China, has developed a navigation system for quadcopter drones that gives them the ability to carry out precise ...
