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Sep292020 by adminNo Comments

China objects to Ladakh status, Indian border activities

World

China says India’s designation of the region along their disputed border as a union territory was an illegal move, and voiced new objections to infrastructure construction that seems to strengthen India’s position in the areaByThe Associated PressSeptember 29, 2020, 10:09 AM• 3 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleBEIJING -- China on Tuesday called India’s designation of the region along their disputed border as a union territory an illegal move, and voiced new objections to infrastructure construction that seems to strengthen India’s position in the area.Foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin also said reports of new Chinese military bases and other facilities being built on its side were “totally untrue and have ulterior motives.”Senior commanders agreed earlier ...

Feb222020 by adminNo Comments

Bumblebees can recognize objects across different senses

Science

Feb. 21 (UPI) -- The ability to recognize objects across different senses is an important part of the human brain's ability to produce mental images of the world and sustain conscious awareness. It turns out, insects and their tiny brains have the same ability. According to a new study, published Friday in the journal Science, bumblebees can learn about an object using one sense and recognize it later using another. In the lab, scientists trained the bumblebees to distinguish between cubes and spheres without being able to touch the objects. Scientists used sugar water as a reward for the correct selection, while those that chose the wrong shape got a bitter quinine solution. The initial training sessions were lit, allowing the bees to use their vision. During followup tests, researcher...

Jan162020 by adminNo Comments

‘Strange objects’ found near Milky Way black hole

Technology

Scientists have been amazed by "strange objects" discovered near the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.Astronomers from UCLA's Galactic Centre Orbits Initiative described the weird objects in a paper published in the academic journal Nature. "These objects look like gas and behave like stars," said the paper's co-author Professor Andrea Ghez. Star orbiting black hole backs Einstein's theory A...

Jul232017 by adminNo Comments

Water helps scientists scan 3D images of complex objects

Science

July 21 (UPI) -- Scientists have developed a new method for producing accurate 3D scans of complex objects. The method's key ingredient is water.Most 3D scanning technologies rely exclusively on optical devices, laser scanners and cameras. The data collected by these devices can be noisy and incomplete.Cameras can't pick up features out of their line of sight, resulting in imprecise scans. For example, 3D scanners fail to properly render the shape of a miniature elephant model's rotund underside.A team of researchers found the addition of some relatively simple arithmetic can bolster 3D scanning technologies. The scientists used fluid displacement to measure the volume of the 3D objects.As an object is slowly dipped into a tub of water by a robotic arm, a computer model measures the change...