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South Koreans triumph in US robot challenge

South Korean boffins carried home the $2 million top prize Saturday after their robot triumphed in a disaster-response challenge inspired by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan. Team KAIST ...

Jun 7, 2015
Science
Local team develops ‘emotion reading’ sensor

A sensor that can detect and differentiate muscle movements caused by changes in emotion has been developed by a local research team. The team led by professor Lee Nae-eung of Sungkyunkwan Universit...

May 4, 2015
Science
World's largest particle collider ready to restart in 'days'

GENEVA (AFP) -- Physicists have fixed a short-circuit at the world's largest proton smasher, making the particle-hunting machine ready for a restart "within days' time" after a two-year shutdown. A ...

Apr 1, 2015
Science
Astronauts dock with space station for 1-year mission

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) -- The capsule carrying a Russian and an American who are to spend a year away from Earth docked Saturday with the International Space Station. Mikhail Kornienko and Scott ...

Mar 28, 2015
Science
[Newsmaker] Korea deploys new science satellite

YASNY, Russia ― South Korea said Thursday it has successfully sent a new science satellite into space, its radio communication with the country’s ground station indicating that the satellite is opera...

Mar 26, 2015
Science
Pan-LG heir sued for fraud

Koo Bon-ho, an adviser to Galaxia Communications, on Monday was accused of fraud and embezzlement. Prosecutors at the Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Office said Koo is accused of receiving more than 1 ...

Mar 2, 2015
Science
Park vows to nurture central region as hub of bioindustry

President Park Geun-hye vowed Wednesday to help nurture South Korea's central region as a hub of the bioindustry as she opened the latest innovation center. South Korea has been pushing to set up in...

Feb 4, 2015
Science
Sony seeks to delay earnings over 'The Interview' cyberattack

TOKYO (AFP) -- Sony said Friday it was asking Japanese regulators for permission to delay its earnings release next month after a cyberattack at its Hollywood film unit compromised "a large amount of...

Jan 23, 2015
Science
U.N. official backs N. Korea abuses despite defector's changes

TOKYO (AP) -- The United Nations' official in charge of investigating human rights violations in North Korea said Friday he stands by U.N. findings of widespread abuses there despite recent backtrack...

Jan 23, 2015
Science
(Photo News) Evidence of Mars water

This image taken by the Mast Camera on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover just north of the “Kimberley” waypoint shows beds of sandstone inclined to the southwest toward Mount Sharp and away from the Gale C...

Dec 9, 2014
Science
S. Korea ranks 7th in science capability scale in 2014

South Korea ranked seventh in terms of science and technology capabilities among the members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2014, the country's ICT ministry sa...

Dec 2, 2014
Science
Seoul set to unveil results of field study on Ebola-hit Sierra Leone

South Korea was to unveil the results of a field study on Ebola-hit Sierra Leone conducted by its advance team Wednesday as part of its plan to send medical workers there, the foreign ministry said. ...

Nov 26, 2014
Science
(Photo News) Fossil find

The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage said Monday that it had found the fossil of a Theropoda dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period (110 million to 120 million years ago) in Hadong...

Nov 24, 2014
Science
First complete dinosaur skeleton found in S. Korea

A complete skeleton of a small carnivorous dinosaur has been found in southern South Korea, the first such discovery in the country, a state think tank said Monday. The National Research Institute o...

Nov 24, 2014
Science
Jinju meteorites found to be 4.6b years old

South Korean scientists said Tuesday four meteorites discovered in the southern part of the country earlier this year are estimated to be as old as the solar system. In early March, residents in Jin...

Nov 18, 2014
Science

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