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Executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Klaus Schwab received a conferral of honorary doctorate degree at KAIST. Doctor Schwab was invited on September 7 for a conferment ceremony, which was held in the Fusion Hall of KAIST Institutes Building (E4) with about 200 guests attending. After the conferral ceremony, Doctor Schwab gave a lecture on the "Influence of Destructive Innovation o
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Jeong Yeon Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:39
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Emeritus Professor Kyung-won Chung from the Department of Industrial Design here at KAIST received the top award at the 2015 DMI (Design Management Institute) Design Value Awards during the 40th Anniversary Gala last month in Boston, United States.Founded in 1975, the non-profit organization DMI has been dedicated to connecting design to various aspects of business and culture and changing the wor
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 07:38
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A research team from Seoul National University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, led by Professors Hyung Wook Kwon and Young-Joon Ahn, found olfactory mechanisms that allow fast and efficient blood feeding for mosquitos. The fruit of their research was published online on August 26 in Scientific Reports.The traditional view holds that while carbon dioxide and octanol attract mosquitos at
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Young Jae Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:36
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NASA announced on September 29 that new findings made by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) suggest sporadic liquid water flow on present-day Mars. The MRO has been examining Mars since 2006 and is equipped with six scientific instruments. Using one such instrument, the imaging spectrometer, researchers detected hydrated minerals on Martian slopes marked with dark streaks. These streaks, appear
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Young Jae Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:36
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A new analysis from a research team at the University of Illinois provides further proof for the hypothesis that viruses are living entities. Until now, the classification of viruses has been a subject of confusion, and the consensus was that all viruses originated from an ancestral virus. The study focused on structural building blocks of proteins, called “folds,” that are found on all cells and
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Hyoyeon Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:34
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Is there anything to observe in the vacuum, when the vacuum is the absolute nothingness? Or is it? Professor Alfred Leitenstorfer and his research team at the University of Konstanz in Germany succeeded in direct observation of vacuum fluctuation. Against the prevailing assumption to the contrary, the research team managed to directly detect vacuum fluctuations with high-precision electric fields.
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Dong Hwan Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:34
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Professor Sang-Min Bae and his research team from the Department of Industrial Design in KAIST received one Silver award and two Bronze awards in the 2015 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). IDEA is one of the most prestigious international design awards awarded by Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) along with the Red Dot Design Award and iF Design Award. More than 1700 proj
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Ah Hyun Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:32
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KAIST Professor Woontack Woo and his research team from the Graduate School of Culture Technology (GSCT) demonstrated their new optical augmented reality platform at the 2015 Smart Cloud Show in Seoul last month. The Smart Cloud Show is an Internet Technology (IT) trend convention, organized by Chosun Biz, that displays recent trends in IT and provides a platform for IT firms to promote their prod
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 07:31
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On September 17, a colloquium on Internet of Things (IoT) and OpenStack was held by KAIST at Pangyo. The event was organized to help businesses enter the global market through providing assistance in the excavation of global business items, development of technologies, and formation of global partnerships. The colloquium was funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning.The main objec
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Dong-Kyeong Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:29
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KAIST has exported its educational system and curriculum to Chongqing University of Technology, signifying its emergence as a world-renowned institution that stands as a model for other universities.Chongqing University of Technology, formerly known as Chongqing Institute of Technology, is a public university located in Chongqing, China. Established in 1940, the university now has around 26,000 st
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Dong Hwan Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:26
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Professor Chun Taek Rim from KAIST’s Nuclear and Quantum Engineering Department has been presented with the First Prize Papers Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE) Transaction on Power Electronics(TPEL). He is the first Korean to receive this honor.The IEEE TPEL is a monthly publication that covers new results in the field of power electronics. Each year, TPEL’s edi
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Hyoyeon Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:08
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Professor Sang-Min Bae’s team from the Department of Industrial Design here at KAIST received three awards for the 2015 Red Dot Award: Design Concept competition, one of the biggest and most prestigious design awards. They were presented with The Red Dot: Best of the Best, a top prize reserved for the ground-breaking works in their respective categories, for BOXCHOOL, and two The Red Dot awards fo
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Dongwon Cha Editor-in-Chief
2015.11.09 07:06
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On August 11, the first KAIST-MIT-Technion International Symposium on Nanoscience took place at KAIST. The symposium was organized by the Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Professor Il-Doo Kim from the KAIST Department of Material Science and Engineering. According to Professor Kim, the goal of the symposium was “to provide an interesting forum for scientists and engineers to share their lates
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Ji Min Yoon Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:05
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This summer, KAIST became host to the 2015 Global Entrepreneurial Energy (GEE) Camp. 23 students from KAIST, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), and the University of Waterloo gathered in the Startup KAIST Studio (W8) to learn about tech entrepreneurship from various industry leaders, share ideas, and interact with each other. The s
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 07:02
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Researchers in an UCSF-led team have developed a technique to create tiny models of human tissue called organoids by turning human cells into cellular LEGO bricks. This technique, named DNA Programmed Assembly of Cells (DPAC), allows researchers to study complex human tissues without using actual human subjects. To turn the cellular LEGOs into organoids, several sets of cells are laid down in laye
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Hyoyeon Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:00
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A joint research team composed of professors and graduate students from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Department of Biological Sciences at Seoul University, in collaboration with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, were successfully able to determine the principle behind the jumping movement of a pond skater on water, and implement it
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Dongwon Cha Editor-in-Chief
2015.11.09 06:59
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A research team led by Doctor Atsushi Miyawaki in RIKEN, one of Japan’s leading institutes for scientific research, has been developing ways to make the brain transparent since 2011. Their most recent method, called ScaleS, mixes urea with common sugar alcohol to minimalize tissue damage and to make it compatible with current techniques in high-resolution microscopy. Dr. Miyawaki notes that, “whil
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Young Jae Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 06:58
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Until now, invisibility cloaks were only a fantasy of science fiction. Yet recently, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California Berkeley developed an invisibility cloak that can conceal an object from visible light using nanotechnology. Although researchers have only managed to conceal an object in a microscopic scale, it is
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Dong Hwan Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 06:57
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The Michael Brown shooting has resulted in nationwide outrage in the U.S., with some people even wondering whether Brown would have died if he had been of a different skin color. On November 25, U.S. President Barack Obama said in response to Ferguson shooting that race-based resentments in America are “not just made up [but] … rooted in realities that have existed in this country for a long time”
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Seung Hyun Suh Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:34
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Around 400 deaths result annually from shootings by the police in the United States (US). However, only a small proportion of police officers are prosecuted. Even after conviction, officers receive minimal charges, and some even rejoin the police force. In order to prosecute a police officer, major legal, institutional and social obstacles have to be overcome.In the US as well as most of the count
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:33