The Reliability of Tsunami Detection Buoys

The ocean-based tsunami detection system, known as the deep-ocean assessment and reporting of tsunamis (DART), which today sent warnings to residents on the west coast of the United States and Hawaii (as well as

Angkor Wat

 

Angkor Wat adalah sebuah kuil yang terletak di Kamboja dan dianggap sebagai salah satu dari keajaiban dunia. Ia dibangun oleh Raja Suryavarman II pada

Will the U.S. get an Internet "kill switch"?

In the past few weeks, we've seen two countries try to "turn off" the Internet. On January 27, Egypt, which had previously known few restrictions on Internet access, stopped delivering bits to the subscribers to nearly all its ISPs, even though data passing through Egypt kept flowing normally. Since February 19, Libya has experienced irregular nationwide outages lasting anywhere from a few minutes to seven hours.

Toward a More Social Sense of Place

Such popular location-based services as Foursquare and Gowalla invite people to "check in" at locations using their mobile phones, let their friends know where they are, and collect rewards from businesses in the process. But these apps don't do enough to get people interacting with each other, according to the creators of new location-based services that aim to be much more social—and at least as lucrative.

A Laptop that Knows Where You're Looking

A camera over the screen is a standard feature for laptops. But only Lenovo's new model has a pair of cameras below its display to track the movements of a user's eyes.

Ikan Mas Koki Transparan dari Jepang

Para peneliti Jepang memang tidak pernah habis akan ide-ide brilian. Setelah sebelumnya mengembangbiakkan katak transparan, kini peneliti Jepang berhasil mengembangbiakkan ikan mas tembus pandang.

7 Keajaiban Bayi di Dalam Janin

 Proses pembelajaran janin sudah dimulai sejak dalam kandungan, janin ikut belajar pada trimester kedua dan ketiga, seperti di dalam ruang Amphitheater yang lebih canggih dari kelas mana pun di dunia.Berikut keahlian-keahlian bayi yang sudah dimiliki sejak dalam kandungan, menurut Fred J. Schwartz, MD, ahli anestesi dari Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.