Bob Yirka

1 day ago | phys.org | Bob Yirka

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 study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, the group analyzed data for 37 commercial species using field data amassed by multiple groups over many years studying mangrove ecosystems around the world.

1 day ago | phys.org | Bob Yirka

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 as they fly over a water source. For their study, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, the group conducted experiments with bats flying in a lab environment.

1 day ago | phys.org | Bob Yirka

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 McKenzie tested the possibility of space dust serving as a catalyst to allow hydrogen atoms to merge into hydrogen molecules in space.

2 days ago | phys.org | Bob Yirka

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 the physical characteristics of exhaled droplets play a role in the transmission of infectious diseases.

2 days ago | techxplore.com | Bob Yirka

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 have posted a paper on the arXiv preprint server outlining how the new model was built, its characteristics and how well it has done thus far during testing. Over the past several years, LLMs have become all the rage.