Insects typically use celestial sources of directional information for path integration, and terrestrial panoramic information for view-based navigation. Here we set celestial and terrestrial sources of directional information in conflict for homing desert ants (Melophorus bagoti). In the first experiment, ants learned to navigate out of a round experimental arena with a distinctive artificial ...

Diurnal and nocturnal African dung beetles use celestial cues, such as the sun, the moon, and the polarization pattern, to roll dung balls along straight paths across the savanna. Although nocturnal beetles move in the same manner through the same environment as their diurnal relatives, they do so when light conditions are at least 1 million-fold dimmer. Here, we show, for the first time to our...

The calculations in Thomas-Fermi approximation show that in a gravitational field each cell of ultra dense matter inside celestial bodies obtains a very small positive electric charge. A celestial body is electrically neutral as a whole, because the negative electric charge exists at its surface. The positive volume charge is very small, on the order of magnitude it equals to 10 −18 e per atom ...

Mahapatih Gajah Mada was a great figure who united the archipelago in his time, but no statues have been found that depict figure. Archaeologists disagree on accuracy of human head statue artifact referenced by Mr. Muhammad Yamin, as it does not any markers indicate is Mada. To design an accurate visualization character Mada, this divided into 2 stages: data mining and design. Data involves sea...

Stars and galaxies radiate photons. An astronomical image records photons—each originating from a particular celestial body or from background atmospheric noise—that pass through a telescope’s lens during an exposure. Multiple celestial bodies may contribute photons to a single image (e.g. Figure 1), and even to a single pixel of an image. Locating and characterizing the imaged celestial bodies...

The Romanesque churches dotted along the Way of Saint James are magnificent examples cultural heritage, and their analysis from perspective astronomy may, in an unobtrusive manner, provide information hitherto unexplored facets these treasures. This study aims to examine pilgrimage road as a communication channel seek possible regional variations Christian kingdoms Leon, Castile, Navarre Aragon...

Using eye-tracking, we investigate on-line processing of idioms in a biasing story context by native and non-native speakers of English. The stimuli are idioms used figuratively (at the end of the day – ‘eventually’), literally (at the end of the day – ‘in the evening’), and novel phrases (at the end of the war). Native speaker results indicate a processing advantage for idioms over novel phras...