SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A team of researchers has developed a new insulator material that can lead to production of smaller and faster semiconductors, the science ministry said Thursday. The team from the state-run Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and foreign partners has created a [...]
DAEJEON, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A fast and accurate diagnostic kit for infectious diseases resembling “fidget spinner” has been released by a Korean research institute. A team of researchers at the Institute for Basic Science’s Center for Soft and Living Matter said Tuesday that they had developed a diagnostic kit that can reduce the [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea released the first images sent back by its environment monitoring satellite that clearly shows waters around the Korean Peninsula, the science ministry said Tuesday. The Chollian-2B, the country’s first geostationary satellite launched from French Guiana on Feb. 18 (local time) and now at a fixed orbit some [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s next-generation synchrotron radiation accelerator to be built in the central city of Cheongju will help the country bask in scientific and industrial advances, as well as create huge economic benefits, the science ministry said Friday. The city, 137 kilometers south of Seoul, has been tapped to host [...]
DAEJEON, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean researchers have developed a “touch pitch system” that allows hearing-impaired people to recognize sounds with touch. The new technology analyzes the pitch, which is the height of a sound from the surrounding environment, as well as voices, and converts it into a tactile pattern. Cochlear implant surgery has [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) will develop and commercialize a technology to produce eco-friendly marine ecological blocks used to create artificial fishing banks, with oyster shells. KIOST said Thursday that it has established the Korea Marine Ecology Block, a research institute, in a joint venture [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers has developed stickers that could inform consumers whether refrigerated food products such as fish, meat and fruits are likely to spoil or not. The Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) said Tuesday it has developed a technology that can check whether food products have deteriorated [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a technology that uses genetic markers to find lost cats. Genetic markers refer to a gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species. The Rural Development Administration (RDA) announced Tuesday that it [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A mask that can be reused and still maintain its filtering function after being washed more than 20 times has been developed. Much attention is paid on whether the new mask filter can solve the problem mask shortages amid the growing coronavirus outbreak. A team of researchers from the [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s geostationary environmental monitoring satellite has successfully reached its designated orbit around the Earth, the science ministry said Sunday. The Chollian-2B that blasted off atop the Ariane-5 rocket from French Guiana on Feb. 18 (local time) is now in fixed orbit some 35,786 kilometers above the equator, according [...]