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16 Mar 2016
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Photonic microcapsules confining cholesteric liquid crystals are microfluidically produced, potentially serving as building blocks to compose any shapes of photonic devices.
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15 Mar 2016
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
A new wall-climbing drone can approach any type of structure by flying and sticking to the target and utitlizing a pose change and perching mechanism.
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11 Mar 2016
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
NIRSIT, a functional near-infrared spectroscopy neuroimaging device, is set to change the landscape of neuroscience research and the medical sector by offering high spatial resolution as well as high temporal resolution in a portable and wireless manner.
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10 Mar 2016
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
New research enables the efficient planning of the activities of systems of mobile robots for socially beneficial services including border patrol, search & rescue, and security escort.
3D Advanced Additive Manufacturing Center
10 Mar 2016
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
With the official launch of the 3D Advanced Additive Manufacturing Center, UNIST hopes promote 3D printing technology, as Ulsan's new future growth engine.
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09 Mar 2016
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
The design team at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, has been recognized for outstanding product design for its aftermarket wireless head-up display at the 2016 iF DESIGN AWARD in Munich.
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08 Mar 2016
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
A research team in Korea has suggested an innovative concept of a reactor cooled by supercritical state carbon dioxide (S-CO2). The core has long life (20 years) without refueling as well as inherent safety features.
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07 Mar 2016
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed metabolically engineered Escherichia coli strains to synthesize non-natural, biomedically important polymers including poly(lactate-co-glycolate) (PLGA), previously considered impossible to obtain from biobased materials.
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29 Feb 2016
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
A Korean industry-academic collaborative group has recently developed an anti-bacterial fabric that are effective against antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
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26 Feb 2016
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology upgraded their smart glasses with a low-power multicore processor to employ stereo vision and deep-learning algorithms, making the user interface and experience more intuitive and convenient.
23 Feb 2016
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
President Barack Obama of the United States (US) announced 105 recipients of the 2016 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) on February 18. Among the awardees was a graduate from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
18 Feb 2016
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology graduates have been recently acknowledged by the Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for their scientific contributions at the 22nd Samsung HTP Award contest.
Prof. Jeong Min Baik's research team
15 Feb 2016
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
New photoelectrode that boosts the ability of solar water-splitting to produce hydrogen.
05 Feb 2016
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
The Asia Pacific Biotech News covered five major biotechnology research projects sponsored by the Korean government in the areas of biofuels, biomedicine, bio-nano healthcare, and biorefinery.
UNIST research team, developed a new simple nanowire manufacturing technique.
29 Jan 2016
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
A new simple, cost-effective approach that may open up an effective way to make other metallic/semiconducting nanomaterials.
28 Jan 2016
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
World’s leading universities presented campus sustainability case studies at a conference during the 2016 World Economic Forum held on January 20-23 in Davos, Switzerland.
Mobile device based diagnostic tool
25 Jan 2016
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
Prof. Woonggyu Jung of the School of Life Sciences of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, in conjunction with Adic Co., Ltd. has recently developed a new diagnostic system that will reduce the costs of high-level healthcare.
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20 Jan 2016
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
Securing fundamental technology for the next generation catalysts.
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19 Jan 2016
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
KAIST researchers developed a wall-climbing scout drone to fight fires in high-rises, finding the source of the fires and locating people trapped inside.
Professor Jung of UNIST
08 Jan 2016
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
A research team, affiliated with UNIST has developed a “highly-conductive, highly deformable, and dry-air-stable glass electrolyte for solid-state lithium-ion batteries.
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17 Dec 2015
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute(ETRI)
Future SNS & 5G core technologies; mmWave, MHN and IFD.
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16 Dec 2015
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Researchers in Korea have developed an application that helps people restrain themselves from using smartphones during meetings or social gatherings. The app’s group limit mode enforces users to curtail their smartphone usage through peer-pressure while offering flexibility to use the phone in an emergency.
11 Dec 2015
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Professor Naehyuck Chang of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology chosen among the new 42 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.
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25 Nov 2015
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
Korea’s largest scale personal genome project which aims to sequence 10,000 people and patients was launched in Ulsan Metropolitan City on November 25th, 2015.
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20 Nov 2015
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Researchers in Korea have developed a technique that can easily analyze the optical activity of charged compounds by using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
17 Nov 2015
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology will lead an IdeasLab on biotechnology for an aging society while HUBO, the winner of the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge, will interact with the forum participants, offering an experience of state-of-the-art robotics technology.
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11 Nov 2015
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Medical application of photoactive chemicals offers a promising therapeutic strategy for neurodegenerative diseases.
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09 Nov 2015
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a new way of making fuel cell membranes using nanoscale fasteners, paving the way for lower-cost, higher-efficiency and more easily manufactured fuel cells.
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02 Nov 2015
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Scientists from Korea and U.S. were able to observe an individual membrane protein fold and unfold by pulling and releasing magnetically trapped protein molecules.

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Giants in history

Hwang Hye-seong (5 July 1920 – 14 December 2006) was an expert on Korean royal court cuisine, the knowledge of which she dedicated her career to keeping alive. Formerly an assistant professor of nutritional science, Hwang met the last kitchen court lady in the Joseon Dynasty Han Hui-sun and, from her, learned about the culinary traditions of the royal court.
Joo-myung Seok (November 13, 1908 – October 6, 1950) was a Korean butterfly entomologist who made important contributions to the taxonomy of the native butterfly species in Korea.
Woo Jang-choon (8 April 1898 – 10 August 1959) was a Korean-Japanese agricultural scientist and botanist.
Korean parasitologist Seung-Yull Cho (16 November 1943 – 27 January 2019) is remembered largely for his pioneering works to control infections caused by helminthic parasites and his contribution to journal publishing.
South Korean theoretical physicist Daniel Chonghan Hong (3 March 1956 – 6 July 2002) achieved fame in the public sphere through his research into the physics of popcorn.
Esther Park (1877-1910), born Kim Jeom-dong, was the first female Korean physician to practise modern medicine in Korea and trained the first generation of Korean female doctors.