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PARIS (AFP) ― Astronomers using the most advanced land telescope in the world said on Wednesday they had unlocked knowledge about how formidable “gas giant” planets such Jupiter and Saturn come in...
Updated : 2013.01.03 20:18
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Following is the 11th in a series of articles on President-elect Park Geun-hye’s key policies ― Ed. Korea has entered a period of low growth. A slew of analysts say it is heading in a direction si...
Updated : 2013.01.03 20:18
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The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said Thursday that the number of Korean students studying science and engineering abroad continues to increase, but has been offset by a high inflow ...
Updated : 2012.12.27 19:49
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As many as 56 earthquakes hit the Korean Peninsula this year, the second largest number since the nation began seismic observations in 1978, the state weather agency said Thursday. A 3.9 magnitude e...
Updated : 2012.12.27 11:56
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The mountains on Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands are dissolving from within under the slow but inexorable onslaught of groundwater, researchers say. Sometime in the distant future the mountainous tropi...
Updated : 2012.12.24 16:42
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Tungurahua volcano emits an ash-filled plume as seen from Huambalo, Ecuador, Monday. (AP-Yonhap News) The Tungurahua volcano in central Ecuador keeps spewing gas, ash and red-hot rock, forcing hundr...
Updated : 2012.12.23 19:26
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Patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes often gradually show symptoms of depression as their illness progresses. The link between diabetes and depression had long been suggested, but not pro...
Updated : 2012.12.23 19:25
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In this, Nov. 28, 2012, photo, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is lit during the 80th annual tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center in New York. Scientists are working to decipher the DNA...
Updated : 2012.12.16 20:35
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Korean scientists have discovered the role of a hormone that could help develop medicines to treat and cure diabetes and obesity-associated diseases. Dr. Lee Myung-sik of Samsung Medical Center, who...
Updated : 2012.12.16 20:35
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A scene from the movie "Terminator 2" which demonstrates fictional "nanomorph" technology. A U.S. researcher says a swarm of tiny robots could be a better solution to accomplishing tasks than one bi...
Updated : 2012.12.16 15:04
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X-ray jet streaming,binge-eating black hole detected nearby the galaxy of Andromeda. (NASA) The X-ray jet streaming from a binge-eating black hole in the nearby galaxy of Andromeda has been detected...
Updated : 2012.12.14 13:43
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This picture is not directly related to the article. (123rf) Renewable energy has the potential to power a large electric grid fully 99.9 percent of the time economically by 2030, U.S. researchers s...
Updated : 2012.12.12 14:03
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Mt. Murphy breaks out from the mostly flat, white landscape of West Antarctica. Lakes exist deep below the Antarctic surface because of ice pressure. (Bloomberg) British scientists say they are almo...
Updated : 2012.12.11 14:14
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This undated image made available by NASA and photographed by the Expedition 28 crew aboard the International Space Station, shows the moon, at center with the limb of Earth near the bottom transitio...
Updated : 2012.12.09 20:26
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Korean scientists have discovered a way to restore DNA in human cells damaged by ultraviolet radiation from the sun, chemical and toxic agents, and smoking that can potentially lead to aging and canc...
Updated : 2012.12.09 20:26
