Bob Yirka

3 weeks ago | phys.org | Bob Yirka |Lisa Lock |Robert Egan

A team of paleontologists affiliated with several institutions in Argentina, working with a colleague from the U.K., has discovered evidence of scales from lepidopterans in dung samples recovered from a dig site in Talampaya National Park, Argentina. In their paper published in the Journal of South American Earth Sciences, the group describes how they found the scales in the dung samples and what the find means for scientists who study butterflies and moths.

3 weeks ago | phys.org | Bob Yirka |Lisa Lock |Robert Egan

A team from Fudan University, the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Shaoxin Laboratory, all in China, has developed a retinal prosthesis woven from metal nanowires that partially restored vision in blind mice.

3 weeks ago | phys.org | Bob Yirka |Lisa Lock |Robert Egan

A team of ecologists, arborists and environmentalists affiliated with several institutions across China, working with a colleague from Australia, has found that many old trees are finding sanctuary on temple grounds across China. For an article published in Current Biology, the group used two main data sources to learn more about the protective value of temples.

3 weeks ago | phys.org | Bob Yirka |Lisa Lock |Robert Egan

A team of conservation and wildlife specialists affiliated with several institutions in China has successfully released two Yangtze finless porpoises back into the wild after moving them to a protected area for two years. As reported in the journal Biology Letters, the group cared for the porpoises in their protected area and then followed them after their release back into the wild.

3 weeks ago | techxplore.com | Bob Yirka |Lisa Lock |Robert Egan

A trio of AI researchers at KAIST AI, in Korea, has developed what they call a Chain-of-Zoom framework that allows the generation of extreme super-resolution imagery using existing super-resolution models without the need for retraining.