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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) ― NASA is teaming up with the European Space Agency to get astronauts beyond Earth’s orbit. Europe will provide the propulsion and power compartment for NASA’s new Or...
Updated : 2013.01.17 20:09
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Scientists have zeroed in on a Martian target for the Curiosity rover to drill into a rock outcrop as flat as a pool table that’s expected to yield fresh insight into the red pla...
Updated : 2013.01.17 20:08
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President-elect Park Geun-hye is looking to enhance the country’s science and technology competitiveness with the establishment of a powerful new ministry that will oversee research and development ...
Updated : 2013.01.17 20:08
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North Korea is responsible for last year’s cyber attack on a Seoul newspaper that crippled its server and Web site, South Korean police said Wednesday. The National Police Agency (NPA) said the hack...
Updated : 2013.01.16 19:45
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The transition team of President-elect Park Geun-hye will look into whether her campaign pledges are “too comprehensive” or “overlap” with each other, a spokesman said, hinting at the possibility tha...
Updated : 2013.01.16 19:45
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President-elect Park Geun-hye will send a delegation of special envoys to China next week to meet with China’s next leader Xi Jinping and other government officials, her spokesman said Wednesday. Th...
Updated : 2013.01.16 19:44
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Two former executives of the Shinhan Financial Group Co. received suspended prison terms on Wednesday for embezzling a massive amount of company funds, according to court officials. The Seoul Centra...
Updated : 2013.01.16 19:43
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Japanese scientists say they‘ve successfully bred a type of salmon indigenous to the country through the use of surrogate parents of a different species. Researchers at the Tokyo University of Mari...
Updated : 2013.01.16 09:56
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A group of South Korean scientists, together with German researchers, have discovered new properties of transition from quantum to classical physics that may help build an entirely different kind of ...
Updated : 2013.01.14 20:40
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Prosecutors said Monday they have asked for summary judgments and sought fines against four heads of the country’s major retail conglomerates on charges of not attending parliamentary audits. The fo...
Updated : 2013.01.14 20:24
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South Korea is expected to try again to launch its space rocket later this month after successfully conducting experiments to check if all systems are working properly, a government source said Sunda...
Updated : 2013.01.13 14:30
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The government plans to conduct detailed safety tests on two nuclear reactors that have exceeded their original operating life cycles to ensure no problems occur, an official said Sunday. The offici...
Updated : 2013.01.13 10:56
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Even exoplanets, where living creatures cannot exist, still have possibility to host exomoons with habitable zones, U.S. scientists said. An exoplanet is one that orbits a star other than the sun. A...
Updated : 2013.01.11 17:58
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KAIST President Suh Nam-pyo (left) and Khalid A. Al-Falih, the president and CEO of Saudi Aramco, pose after signing an agreement to establish a joint research center at KAIST, on Monday in Saudi Ara...
Updated : 2013.01.09 20:48
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to enter the emotionally-charged debate over stem cell research, refusing to hear an appeal centered on the issue of federal government funding. The top U.S. c...
Updated : 2013.01.08 09:09
