Hujan meteor Persid selalu dinanti-nantikan kemunculannya oleh para komunitas astronomi. Sebab, keindahan meteor Persid ini memang menakjubkan. NASA mengidentifikasi meteor itu berdiameter 2,5 sentimeter dan bergerak dengan kecepatan fenomenal: 215 ribu kilometer per jam. Dengan…
The question isn’t why did the caterpillar cross the road but how? Researchers have discovered that at least one species of caterpillar precedes each step with a thrust of its gut. The finding points to…
China has overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest producer of greenhouse gases and biggest energy consumer. But the country is also thinking in big and bold ways when it comes to how it…
Humans are not fish. But the two very different species share a genetic toolkit that determines all sorts of crucial traits. So studying fish can teach us important things about ourselves. David Kingsley is a…
University of Parma scientists have pioneered robotic cars that can navigate on their own. They are about to drive from Italy to China and plan to arrive by mid-October. In 2004, scientists from around the…
Lewat helm khusus, pengguna bisa mengirimkan perintah ke komputer. Sekelompok peneliti asal Northeastern University, Boston, Amerika Serikat mengerjakan antarmuka komputer yang bisa menerjemahkan sinyal dari otak lewat helm khusus. Lewat helm yang dibuat, pengguna bisa…
BANDUNG(SI) – PT Dirgantara Indonesia (DI) menyatakan siap membuat pesawat tempur KF-X guna mendukung kerja sama Indonesia dengan Korea Selatan (Korsel). Perusahaan dirgantara nasional tersebut memiliki kompetensi untuk membuat pesawat tempur dengan kemampuan di atas…
A dumbfounding study roughly a decade ago that many now find hard to believe revealed that if people are asked to focus on a video of other people passing basketballs, about half of watchers missed…
Antibodi itu ditemukan dalam sel-sel seorang pria yang tubuhnya memproduksi kedua antibodi secara alami. Tim peneliti pemerintah Amerika mengumumkan apa yang bisa menjadi terobosan besar dalam pencarian vaksin AIDS yang efektif. Tim peneliti pada Institut…
HANGA ROA, Chile — A total solar eclipse drew an 11,000-kilometer (6,800-mile) arc over the Pacific Sunday, plunging remote territories into darkness, but drawing thousands of curious tourists and their dollars. The skies grew black…
Those butterflies flitting around in your yard aren’t just pretty. New research shows their glowing colors have profound implications for scientists and engineers. Butterflies get their colors in two different ways. Some, like the monarch,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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