SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A team of South Korean scientists has completed the development of key testing equipment for SPHEREx, the world’s first all-sky spectral space telescope being constructed under the leadership of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), South Korea’s science ministry said Wednesday. The team led by Jeong Woong-seob [...]
DAEJEON, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Wednesday it had developed new artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can automatically decode chest X-ray images, identifying illnesses such as tuberculosis, pneumothorax and COVID-19. In collaboration with a domestic hospital, the research team developed a new AI algorithm featuring [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A senior official of the U.S. space agency has said he was “very impressed” by South Korea’s technical astuteness, as aerospace engineers of the two countries were working together to launch South Korea’s first lunar orbiter mission next month. The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) — also known as [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science and ICT said Monday that it will launch a brain bank designation system to enable brain science researchers to make use of research resources. The government stipulated details on the qualifications and procedures for the designation of brain banks and the management of brain research [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday started transporting the country’s first lunar orbiter to the United States ahead of next month’s launch using a SpaceX rocket, officials said. South Korea plans to launch the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, also known as Danuri, aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral [...]
BUSAN, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Pusan National University has developed a new device that can relieve pain as an alternative to opioid-based painkillers. The university announced on Monday that its researchers had developed a biometric implantable device using micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) fluid channel technology to relieve pain by cooling a targeted area of the [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology said Wednesday it has developed a new self-healing coating material that repairs car surface scratches through exposure to sunlight. The newly-developed coating material, hindered urea, is added to conventional commercial coating materials to convert their chemical properties and to make high molecular [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea successfully launched a precision aviation satellite Thursday to improve the accuracy and reliability of global positioning system (GPS) signals and better ensure flight safety, the government said. The satellite for the Korea Augmentation Satellite System (KASS), the country’s first precision GPS location augmentation system, lifted off from [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean satellite has made two-way communication with its ground station, officials said Wednesday, confirming the success of the country’s first-ever self-powered satellite deployment project. South Korea on Tuesday successfully launched the 200-ton Nuri from Naro Space Center in the country’s southern coastal village of Goheung in a [...]
DAEJEON, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute said Tuesday that its Radiation Breeding Research Center had developed a hybrid air cargo X-ray security scanner using both X-rays and neutron imaging. The hybrid X-ray security scanner was developed based on the concept that X-rays penetrate less in heavier objects, while neutrons [...]