Science
Small Asteroid to Whip Past Earth on June 27, 2011
Trajectory of 2011 MD from the general direction of the Sun.
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Smarter Task-Transfers Use Mobile Cameras
Google’s Deep Shot, developed with MIT, transfers tasks from the desktop to a smartphone, or vice versa, by merely pointing the phone’s camera at the PC screen.
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Cassini Captures Ocean-Like Spray at Saturn Moon
Dramatic plumes (cloudy, white areas), both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed "tiger stripes" near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm
Modern power grids are vulnerable to solar storms.
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Japan Retakes Supercomputing Lead
The K Computer at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science is the world’s most powerful supercomputer today.
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Smarter Security Screening Hands-Free
Post-doctoral researcher Thierry Dubroca at the University of Florida measures the spectra of TNT to demonstrate the selectivity of the UV-based detector.
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Smarter Sensor Nets Monitor Any Environment
Paolo Dionisi Vici (left), associate research scientist in the Department of Scientific Research at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Hendrik Hamann (right), research manager at IBM, discuss the environmental sensor network for preserving art.
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Building a Smarter City
At the new Rio Operations Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the incident commander's view provides a summary of everything happening around the city on a video wall.
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Smarter Cloud on-a-Chip Goes Green
Intel's Cloud 2015 Vision aims to help businesses implement cloud computing solutions that are federated, automated and client-aware.
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Smarter Implants Shielded From Cyber-Attack
The shield uses two antennas, one to transmit the jamming signal and the other to relay authenticated programming commands to the implant.
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Human Rights
Fostering a More Humane World: The 28th Eurasian Economic Summi
Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020