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On October 11, the 4th annual Chung Moonsoul Science Journalism Award ceremony was held in KAIST Seoul Dogok campus. The award was presented to Hankyoreh for its debunking of scientifically unfounded rumors circulating the web regarding the Sewol ferry tragedy. The awards in the broadcasting and Internet category were presented to JTBC and Ohmynews, respectively.Every year, the Chung MoonSoul Scie
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Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:00
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KAIST has recently announced that Professor Sang Yup Lee from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has been appointed an honorary professor at Wuhan University, China.This appointment is due to Professor Lee’s pioneering research findings and strong leadership in his research field. Wuhan University recognized his innovative achievements in systems metabolic engineering of
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Seung Hyun Suh Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:57
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On October 28, Professor Jong Lam Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) announced that his team succeeded in improving on the light transmittance and electricity conductivity of the conventional electrode by developing a new, transparent prototype that can be applied to flexible organic solar cells. The current cle
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Jung Wook Choi Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:56
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In an animal study conducted by the Society for Neuroscience, which was published in The Journal of Neuroscience on October 29, researchers provided a test group of adolescent rats with daily doses of alcohol. These rats were found to have displayed significantly lower levels of myelin in their prefrontal cortexes than did other rats that were given sweetened water. The shortage of myelin, a fatty
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Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:55
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A research team from Ohio State University has invented a solar battery that runs on light and air. Professor Yiying Wu and his team have succeeded in combining a battery and a solar cell into one hybrid device. The team explains that this new device is constructed from a so-called “mesh solar panel”, which allows air to enter the battery, and special method of transferring electrons b
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Jeong Yeon Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:55
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Despite the common understanding that plants need sunlight to grow, a research team from Purdue University has succeeded in growing plants using only red and blue LED light. Farmers have been using high-pressure sodium lamps as a supplement to sunlight in greenhouses. Surprisingly, the seedlings grown under the LED light showed similar or, in some cases, better results than those grown in conventi
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Jeong Yeon Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:54
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The University of Exeter and the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) have announced that the bird population across Europe has been substantially decreasing in a new study published in the journal Ecology Letters. In fact, a staggering 421 million individual birds have died over a relatively short period of 3 years, mostly as the tragic result of unsustainable human lifestyle. The
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So Jung Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:54
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Professors Jung Ki Park and Hee Tak Kim of the KAIST Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Professor Seung Woo Lee of SKKU (Sungkyunkwan University) Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology have developed the world’s first auto-repairing electric circuit that reconnects its short-circuited part when exposed to a laser light.By using an ordinary presentation laser pointer, one c
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:52
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Professor Dong Ki Yoon of the Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology (GSNT) and his research team has developed a very delicate spiral nanostructure using a self-assembly technique.With this newly developed technology, spiral structures, which are considered to be the most difficult to fabricate amongst three-dimensional (3D) structures, can be fabricated on large areas. The structure, made
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:49
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On November 11, the Cho Chun Shik Graduate School for Green Transportation (GSGT) gave KAIST students a comprehensive tour at the Korea Railroad Research Institute (KRRI). Students from all engineering departments were welcome to participate in this field tour.The students had the chance to ride the HEMU-430X (High-speed Electric Multiple Unit 430 km/h eXperimental), a high speed train that can tr
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Shin Hum Cho Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:13
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The world has still not found a safe and stable way to harness the vast amount of underwater gas hydrate, a potential energy source that far surpasses coal or oil - that is, until now.A research team composed of Professor Hun Lee, Doctor Dong Yeun Koh, and doctorate candidate Hyery Kang, all from the KAIST Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has developed a way of retrieving huge
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.06.03 19:07
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Alcohol consumption, regardless of its adverse long-term effects, is a defining component of the culture of a nation, society, or organization. This month, The KAIST Herald performed an in-depth analysis on alcohol consumption, its sociocultural influences, and typical norms. Part one analyzes the social phenomenon of alcohol in Korea; part two will discuss the alcohol consumption behaviors unique
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Min Kyu Choi Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 18:47
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A collaborative research team in KAIST has developed metamaterial lenses for terahertz waves inspired by mirages, an optical phenomenon observed in nature. The research team was led by Professor Ki-Hun Jeong from the KAIST Department of Bio and Brain Engineering and Professor Jaewook Ahn from the Department of Physics. The team was able to develop metamaterial lenses that can cut production costs
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Shin Hum Cho Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 18:04
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A joint research team led by Professor Yong-Hoon Cho and Assistant Professor YongKeun Park of the KAIST Department of Physics has developed an ultra-high resolution lens with which one can observe images in the range of 100 nm, in 2-D, all in real time. This is a feat that cannot be achieved by traditional optical lenses due to the diffraction limit of light.This groundbreaking lens was the result
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.06.03 18:04
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On September 22, KAIST signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the University of Waterloo (Waterloo). The two universities agreed on research collaboration in computer science, electrical, engineering, and chemical and biomolecular engineering.Feridun Hamdullahpur, president and vice chancellor of Waterloo said, “KAIST and the University of Waterloo have so much in common. Our univer
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 18:03
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Professor Ryong Ryoo of the KAIST Department of Chemistry was nominated as one of the laureates in the Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014.Since 2002, Thomson Reuters has been predicting and announcing potential Nobel Prize laureates by analyzing data from Web of Science. Out of the 156 predicted laureates, 25 have actually won the prize. This is the first time
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 18:02
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On September 16, the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) University Rankings were published, with KAIST placed 51st among the top universities worldwide. Having once been ranked outside the top 100, KAIST has been climbing the ladder ever since to reach its present position.First compiled in 2004, the QS World University Rankings is a league table that annually ranks more than 800 universities around the wo
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Seung Hyun Suh Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 18:01
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On October 1, KAIST announced that Professor Munchurl Kim from the KAIST Department of Electrical Engineering registered an internationally recognized standard patent on highly efficient video compression technology, in next generation high efficiency video coding (HEVC). This compression technology standard makes KAIST the first university in the nation to register such a standard patent.The pate
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Shin Hum Cho Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 18:01
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The Student Welfare Committee (SWC) recently announced that the KAIST administration is planning to undergo stages of innovation to improve KAIST’s global status by setting up a “Global K-Valley” in the Munji campus. According to the proposal released by the committee, the administration hopes to build a campus that contains corporations that would act as role models for students
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Jung Wook Choi Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 18:00
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The president of KAIST, Sung-Mo Kang, has become the 11th member of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) International Board.MIPT International Board was created in 2013, with the primary objective being “the integration of MIPT as an inheritor of original Soviet Science into the world’s academic community”. The first meeting of the board was held on February 14
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Seung Hyun Suh Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:59