SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Fireflies, amongst many living organisms yet known to man, have the most efficient luminescence mechanisms. A domestic research team has taken advantage of this natural phenomenon to develop a technology that increases the efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) by more than 60 percent. A research team led by [...]
SEJONG, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries announced that a group of Korean scientists had observed part of the Nansen ice shelf breaking off. Ice shelves are vast expanses of ice floating in the ocean. They are usually 100 to 900 meters thick. The Nansen ice shelf is located 50 [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – New technology that gathers weather information from taxis operating in the city will soon be available. According to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), technology to collect weather data through vehicle on-board diagnostics (OBD) is currently being developed. OBD refers to a system that automatically saves diagnostic information of a running car. [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Research indicates that sex offenders‘ eye movements are different from ordinary people. According to a report issued by Professor Min Yoon-gi from Chungnam University’s psychology department, ordinary people, sex criminals and child molesters display different patterns of eye movement. The team studied the eye movement of 18 male students from [...]
ULSAN, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) is creating an independent laboratory specializing in the production of gas by breaking down human excrement. As the gas produced is actually used to power heat sources for homes, the project is attracting attention. After the researchers do their ‘number twos’, [...]
The core of the technology is turning aluminum into a form of nano-particle ink and coating fabrics with it. Using the technology, conductive fabrics that are used in wearable devices such as smart watches can be produced. (Image : Shutterstock) SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), a [...]
JEONJU, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean scientists have uncovered evidence as to why ‘hanwoo’ (Korean beef) tastes so good. Hanwoo is considered to be a ‘special occasion food’, only consumed on important gatherings or offered as a gift at holidays because of its great taste and extremely high prices. Although Koreans don’t have to [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – In an era when the climate is so unpredictable, a system that can simulate the effects of abnormal weather patterns 50 or even 100 years in the future has been established. The Ministry of Environment and the Climate Change Adoption System (CCAS) at the Korea Environment Institute established an [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just a movie premise but actually realizable technology, it has been pointed out that Korean companies need to buckle down as they are lagging behind global IT giants. According to a report issued by the Institute for Information and Communications [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Science has finally explained why people overeat when they are sleep deprived. The online Washington Post and Medical Express reported that professor Erin Hanron at the medical college of the University of Chicago figured out that a lack of sleep increases 2-arachidonoyl glycerol (2-AG), which is a chemical substance [...]