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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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S. Korea calls on Japan to confront history amid Yasukuni Shrine visit
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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Over-50s, men, single-person households take up majority of those filing for bankruptcy
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Aging population to drive down Korea's housing prices from 2040: experts
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Avoiding sugary drinks helps with weight
BOSTON (UPI) -- Overweight and obese U.S. teens gain less weight when they consume fewer sugary drinks, researchers say.Cara Ebbeling and Dr. David Ludwig of Boston Children‘s Hospital and colleagues said their study involved 224 overweight or obese ninth- and 10th-graders who regularly drank 1.7 sugary beverages a day.The year-long study intervention was designed to reduce consumption of these be
Oct. 16, 2012
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New Apple Mac Mini may be imminent
Apple may announce a new Mac Mini when it unveils the iPad Mini, and a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro may also join them, websites are reporting.The new Mac Mini will come in three models, with two differentiated by processor and storage capacity and the third running as an OS X server, 9to5Mac reported.With the Mac Mini not having an upgrade since 2010, it‘s likely the new models with feature the latest-generation Intel Core processors, larger hard drives and faster graphics, Slash Gear said.The Ma
Oct. 16, 2012
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Korean researchers find gene linked to Alzheimer’s
Korea researchers said they have identified a gene that produces neurotoxic components in Alzheimer’s disease, in a step forward to finding a cure for the degenerative brain disease. The state-run Korea National Institute of Health said on Monday that a team led by Dr. Koh Young-ho at its biomedical science division found small ubiquitin-related modifier (SUMO) 1 protein.The team found in lab testing with mice that SUMO1 integrates with BACE1, a key enzyme which accelerates the production and de
Oct. 15, 2012
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KT looks to ‘design’ to give products identity
KT, the nation’s second-largest mobile carrier, said Monday that it would design its products with a signature style to maximize its brand power. The move comes after KT’s outer packaging for home mobile devices won the prestigious Red Dot Design Best of the Best Award 2012 in the productivity sector.The mobile carrier used the word “product identity” to explain how a product becomes a unique entity under the brand name KT. Citing Apple and different generations of iPod, KT chairman Lee Suk-chae
Oct. 15, 2012
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Gov’t building arson highlights dispute on ’evolution in textbooks’
An arsonist who torched a government office room and fell off a building to his death on Sunday had criticized the government in the past for “trying to remove the theory of evolution from textbooks,” highlighting a year-long feud between evolutionists and creationists in South Korea.The 61-year-old man, identified only by his surname Kim, claimed in his personal blog that the Education Ministry “had taken sides” with the Society for Textbook Revise, a group of mostly Christians which seeks to d
Oct. 15, 2012
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Scientists: Moon not bone dry
(123rf)The moon is covered with soil containing a water substructure created by the constant stream of charged particles coming from the sun, U.S. researchers say.The substructure, known as a hydroxyl, consists of one atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen, or OH, rather than two of hydrogen and one of oxygen, or H2O, the researchers from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, University of Michiga
Oct. 15, 2012
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Apple to pay Swiss for copying clock
Apple's iOS 6 app on the left, the Swiss Federal Railways SBB clock on the right. (UPI)Apple, which has spent a fair amount of time in courts over copyright issues, says it will pay up rather than contest a claim it copied an iconic Swiss clock.Swiss railway operator SBB took the California company to task last month for allegedly copying its famously accurate rail station clocks for the design of
Oct. 15, 2012
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Moms-to-be stress linked to depression
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) -- Chronic stress during pregnancy prevents brain benefits of motherhood in rats, a finding that suggests a link to postpartum depression, U.S. researchers say.Lead author Benedetta Leuner of Ohio State University in Columbus said the study showed an increase of dendritic spines in new mothers‘ brains was associated with improved cognitive function on a task that requires behavio
Oct. 15, 2012
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Study: Brain reacts to unpleasant sounds
Increased activity between two separate parts of the brain explains why the sound of chalk on a blackboard is so unpleasant, British researchers say.Newcastle University scientists said the interaction between the region of the brain that processes sound, the auditory cortex, and the amygdala, which is active in the processing of negative emotions, is heightened when people hear unpleasant sounds.The amygdala modulates the response of the auditory cortex and the amplified activity provokes our n
Oct. 15, 2012
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Local team identifies new step in RNA synthesis
A team of Seoul National University scientists discovered a previously unknown step in the process of producing a type of RNA molecule.The team, led by professor Kim V-narry of Seoul National University who is a well-known name in biochemical circles, discovered a new step in the process of producing a specific type of microRNA known as let-7. The findings were published in the online edition of the biological journal The Cell. In 2008 she was awarded the L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Award, a
Oct. 14, 2012
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SKT launches IT platform to enter ‘big data’ market
SK Telecom, one of the nation’s top three mobile communications operators, aims at penetrating the “big data market,” or numerous online responses on market products, with a new analytic platform.“Smart Insight 2.0,” the new analytic IT platform, analyzes online reviews and SNS postings such as tweets, blog postings and online news reviews, which are then processed into management information, SK Telecom said Sunday. “Online ‘big data’ gives helpful implications in numbers that are incomparable
Oct. 14, 2012
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Scientists see volcanic eruption 'trigger'
(AP)British scientists say they have identified a repeating underground trigger for the largest explosive volcanic eruptions on Earth.Researchers from the University of Southampton have been studying the Las Canadas volcanic caldera on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, which has generated at least eight major eruptions during the last 700,000 years.These catastrophic events have created eruption col
Oct. 14, 2012
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Vitamin C may prevent bone loss
NEW YORK -- Vitamin C may protect against osteoporosis -- a disease in which the bones of the elderly become brittle and can fracture, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Mone Zaidi, director of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Bone Program, and colleagues removed the ovaries of mice, a procedure -- ovariectomies -- known to reduce bone density, and compared them with control mice that had “sham” operati
Oct. 14, 2012
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Moriguchi's claims of iPS treatment baseless
The Yomiuri Shimbun concluded Friday that a Japanese researcher's claim that his team had successfully conducted the world's first clinical application of induced pluripotent stem cells was false and that its reports based on the man's accounts were incorrect.Hisashi Moriguchi, 48, who claimed to be a visiting lecturer at Harvard University, told The Yomiuri Shimbun that a Harvard University team
Oct. 14, 2012
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Mystery giant eyeball found on Fla. beach
(FWCC- UPI)A giant eyeball that washed up on a Florida beach this week is probably that of a large squid, wildlife experts said of the softball-size peeper.The mysterious eye washed up on Pompano Beach where it was found by a beachcomber who gave it to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Wednesday, National Geographic reported.FWCC scientists put the impressive eye on ice and
Oct. 14, 2012
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Reports: Smaller iPad to be revealed Oct. 23
Apple Inc. is set to reveal a smaller, cheaper version of the iPad at an event on Oct. 23, according to several reports published Friday.The reports from Bloomberg News, Reuters and the AllThingsD blog are based on unnamed sources with ``familiar with the plans.''Apple Inc. hasn't said anything about a smaller tablet, a concept company founder Steve Jobs derided two years ago. But company watchers
Oct. 13, 2012
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Brain scan can predict reading skills
Brain scans can predict children‘s reading ability and the finding may eventually influence the way pre-elementary children learn to read, U.S. researchers say.Scientists at Stanford University scanned the brain anatomy of 39 children once a year for three consecutive years. The students then took standardized tests to gauge their cognitive, language and reading skills.In each case the rate of dev
Oct. 12, 2012
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Distant planet may be mostly diamond
llustration of the interior of 55 Cancri e — an extremely hot planet with a surface of mostly graphite surrounding a thick layer of diamond, below which is a layer of silicon-based minerals and a molten iron core at the center. (Haven Giguere)A rocky planet twice Earth's size orbiting a nearby star in our Milky Way galaxy is partly made of diamond, U.S. astronomers say.Scientists at Yale Universit
Oct. 12, 2012
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Samsung unveils Galaxy S3 mini
Samsung Electronics Co., the world's top smartphone maker, on Friday unveiled its Galaxy S3 mini phone, a compact version of the flagship Galaxy S3 device, to cater to consumers looking for a practical option. The 4-inch smartphone is powered by Jelly Bean, the latest version of the Android operating system, and runs on a dual-core processor, Samsung said in a press release, noting the device is
Oct. 12, 2012
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NASA releases dramatic nebula images
The first systematic survey of planetary nebulas in our cosmic neighborhood has produced a galley of striking images of distant dying stars, NASA says.Images of four planetary nebulas have been released from the first survey of such objects made with NASA‘s orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.They are part of a survey of 21 planetary nebulas within about 5,000 light years of the Earth, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., reported Thursday.The observatory controls Chandr
Oct. 12, 2012