New York: Sebuah penelitian membuktikan, ternyata anjing bisa mendeteksi penyakit kanker prostat. Demikian dikatakan seorang peneliti dari Perancis dalam pertemuan Assosiasi Ahli Urologi Amerika Serikat di New York, Amerika Serikat, Sabtu (19/6). Menurut peneliti tersebut, Jean Nicolas Cornu, beberapa anjing gembala jenis Belgia Malinois dapat dilatih guna membedakan bau air seni milik pria berpenyakit kanker [...]
Researchers found that 28 percent of young children who required anesthesia to treat their cavities — either because of the seriousness of the decay or their lack of cooperation — had a BMI indicating they were overweight or obese. For comparison, data gathered from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey a few years back [...]
A robot submarine has made a surprising discovery under the floating ice shelf of a West Antarctic glacier that recently has been disappearing into the sea with alarming speed. The yellow submarine found a small underwater mountain range that probably once acted as a speed bump, slowing the flow of the glacier from the West [...]
A group of seventh-graders in California has discovered a mysterious cave on Mars as part of a research project to study images taken by a NASA spacecraft orbiting the red planet. The 16 students from teacher Dennis Mitchell’s 7th-grade science class at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., found what looks to be a Martian [...]
About 5,500 years ago someone in the mountains of Armenia put his best foot forward in what is now the oldest leather shoe ever found. It’ll never be confused with a penny loafer or a track shoe, but the well-preserved footwear was made of a single piece of leather, laced up the front and back, [...]
Mumi telah menjadi inspirasi puluhan film horor Hollywood dan merupakan gambaran ke masa lampau bagi para arkeolog. Tapi, ahli mumi terkenal mengatakan tubuh yang diawetkan sebenarnya memiliki peran yang penting dalam dunia modern, yaitu membantu para dokter memahami penyakit yang menjangkiti manusia selama ribuan tahun. Mumi dari zaman Mesir Kuno membantu para pakar meneliti penyakit [...]
TEMANGGUNG, KOMPAS.com – Dinas Pendidikan Kabupaten Temanggung, Jawa Tengah, menginstruksikan kepada para kepala sekolah untuk merazia handphone seluruh siswanya, menyusul beredarnya video mesum mirip artis Ariel Peterpan, Luna Maya dan Cut Tari. “Kami telah menginstruksikan melalui surat resmi kepada seluruh sekolah untuk menindak tegas siswa yang ketahuan menyimpan gambar video mesum itu,” kata Kepala Dinas [...]
In the 55 years since Albert Einstein’s death, many scientists have tried to figure out what made him so smart. But no one tried harder than a pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who lost his job and his reputation in a quest to unlock the secrets of Einstein’s genius. Harvey never found the answer. But through [...]
NEW YORK–MI: Planet terpanas di galaksi Bima Sakti saat ini sedang meregang seperti bola karena tengah dimakan oleh bintang induknya. Ini berdasarkan observasi yang dilakukan oleh astronom menggunakan Teleskop Antariksa Hubble. Eksoplanet itu bernama WASP-12b. “Planet WASP-12b masih memiliki waktu 10 juta tahun lagi hingga sepenuhnya habis termakan,” ungkap ilmuwan Hubble pekan lalu. WASP-12b sangat [...]
Scientists are reporting that they have made a living cell from DNA that was originally synthesized in a lab. This isn’t quite a synthetic organism. But the result is an important, and some would say troubling, step on the road to creating life in the lab. Craig Venter is the scientist behind the effort. Many [...]
WASHINGTON — Finding a new animal species is a special moment for scientists and even better when one hops into their mountain camp and volunteers to be discovered. An international team of researchers was camping in the Foja mountains of Indonesia when herpetologist Paul Oliver spied a frog sitting on a bag of rice in [...]
GURJARAT  — Ilmuwan militer India sedang mempelajari seorang pria 82 tahun yang mengaku tidak punya makanan atau minuman selama 70 tahun. Prahlad Jani, pria tua itu, kini ditempatkan di ruang isolasi di sebuah rumah sakit di Ahmedabad, Gurjarat. Telegraph, Kamis (29/4/2010), melaporkan, di situ dia diawasi secara ketat oleh organisasi riset pertahanan India, yang percaya [...]
When it comes to mental health, the Internet gets a bad rap. There are countless studies that suggest regular access to the Internet is linked to stress, anxiety and addiction. But before you stop tweeting and toss out your iPhone, it turns out that spending time on the Web could actually be making you happier. [...]
Arecibo – Asteroid dekat bumi, 2005 YU55, bisa diabadikan gambarnya oleh Arecibo Radar Telescope di Puerto Rico pada 19 April lalu. Data yang dikumpulkan selama masa observasi Arecibo terhadap 2005 YU55 membuat Near-Earth Object Program Office di Jet Propulsion Laboratory milik badan antariksa Amerika (NASA) dapat mengetahui orbit batu antariksa tersebut dengan benar. Berdasarkan data [...]
Los Anggeles – Â Diam-diam bisnis pornografi dalam dunia teknologi juga semakin berkembang seiring pesatnya perkembangan dunia Information Technology atau IT di Amerika Serikat. Seminggu setelah peluncuran iPad, perusahaan terbesar di dunia porno Pink Visual Sabtu (24/4) mengklaim berhasil menciptakan cara untuk melakukan streaming video ke perangkat buatan Apple tersebut. Dengan keberhasilan “menjebol” pertahanan iPad maka, [...]
Twenty years after it first reached space, the Hubble Space Telescope still tirelessly circles the Earth, snapping images of the cosmos and continuing to fulfill its role as the beloved Comeback Kid of celestial imaging. “I don’t think anybody thought Hubble would be around this long. It’s sort of like the little engine that could,” [...]
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