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A team of researchers from University of Washington has developed a revolutionary 3D model algorithm that relies on bulk of images of celebrities that are available on the web to made 3D models.

The team even released a video in which it showed how their tool projected that facial mannerism of celebrities kike Tom hanks and former US President George Bush onto other 3D facial reconstructions.

Developing this outstanding 3D imaging tool took five years of time. The work has been led by graduate student Supasorn Suwajanakorn and assistant professor of computers science and engineering Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman.

The team presented their findings in a paper at the International Conference on Computer Vision, which was held in Chile on December 16.

Researchers in two new studies have got some insight into the secrets of Ceres. The data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has also provided clues about the mysterious bright features found all over the dwarf planet's surface.

In one of the studies, scientists call this bright spots as a kind of salt on the dwarf planet’s surface. The second study shows the presence of ammonia-rich clays on Ceres.

Findings of the studies have raised big questions on how Ceres was actually formed. Study led by Andreas Nathues at Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research showed that Ceres has more than 130 bright areas, and most of them are associated with impact craters.

He wrote that the bright spots on Ceres’ surface are consistent with a type of magnesium sulfate called hexahydrite.

Electric car market in China seems to be getting a boost after hazardous smog forced officials to ban use of vehicles for travelling due to pollution. Some dealers even told that the inquiries about all-electric models have increased by almost a tenth.

Seeing the high spread of hazardous smog, Beijing issued a first pollution ‘red alert’ on Monday. Officials in order to combat the harmful smog ordered to limit the use of conventional petrol-powered and hybrid cars to alternate days.

Smog was no fun for anyone, but the electric car market in China are the ones that is benefitted the most. People can easily use cars to commuting as they do not emit any pollution, which has prompted a rush of inquiries from would-be buyers, dealers and automakers.

Researchers after studying the recently found fossils of one of the oldest-known members of the dinosaur group like Triceratops said that the forerunners of this giant beast were far more modest.

A team of scientists on Wednesday announced that they have found remains of a spaniel-sized dinosaur in the Gobi Desert in western China’s Xinjiang Province. Scientists named the dinosaur as Hualianceratops that lived about 160 million years ago late in the Jurassic Period.

According to researchers, the dinosaur was almost three feet long and was much smaller than the later members of the same group. Triceratops, which lived alongside Tyrannosaurus rex in western North America about 67 million years ago, was more than 30 feet (9 meters) in length.

For many young doctors fresh out of medical school, training years and internship period provide a crash course in depression. An analysis published on Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Assn has suggested that roughly one-third of interns and residents experience depressive symptoms or full-blown depression at some moment while their training is going on.

The figure is not just ironic if we consider that their profession exists to heal the ill, not the other way around, but is also unsafe for patients, as doctors with depression have more probability of providing poor care and make medical errors.

ADHD sufferers now constitute 12% of school-aged kids. The two groups growing rapidly include girls and Hispanics. According to a sufferer, the feeling is like having the Library of Congress in head, but without any card catalogue. The suffer said that this is what feels like having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

An author of two books on this subject, Melissa Orlov wrote regarding this response in an article for Psychology Today.

The statement suggested by her has shot a hole in the general myth that ADHD sufferers are just lazy. She wrote that one should just give it a thought that how hard it would be to get organized.