Kim Bitnaeri, a renowned life science professor at Seoul National University, has analyzed the RNA transcript of the virus that causes COVID-19 infections for the first time in the world, paving the way for the development of high-precision reagents and therapeutic drugs for the novel coronavirus.Th

The Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) has developed a device that measures the results of an antigen and antibody immune response test, one of simple influenza tests, faster and more accurately.KETI announced on April 7 that the newly developed high-performance immunodiagnostic reader di

The Korea Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and SK Telecom have jointly developed an artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor based on neural network processing units (NPUs), which can be applied to data centers and Internet of Things devices, the Ministry of Science and

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on April 6 that professor Yoo Hoi-jun and his research team have succeeded in developing a generative adversarial networks processing unit (GANPU) as an AI chip processing GAN with low power and high efficiency. The AI chip is

A team of Korean researchers has developed a core part of an artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor, which is needed to develop computers like the human brain and nervous system. This part saves a new computer 10 times more power compared to running a current AI computer system.The Korea Institu

The Korean government will launch a project to develop a central processing unit (CPU) for supercomputer with Korea’s own technology. The government's idea is to complete the development of a prototype by 2023 and localize it through subsequent studies.The Ministry of Science and ICT plans to in

The Korean government has come up with a plan to build a next-generation radiation accelerator, upgrade the existing proton accelerator, and complete the construction of a heavy ion accelerator and a heavy particle accelerator as scheduled.The government intends to boost Korea’s science and technolo

Scientists from the University of Oxford’s Engineering Science Department and the Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) have developed a rapid testing technology for COVID-19, the University of Oxford said in a press release on March 18.The team, led by Prof. Zhanfeng Cui and Prof. Wei

Professor Jonathan Sessler at the University of Texas released his research result on the anticancer drug candidate of oxaliTEX on March 17. Dr. Hong Kwan-soo and his research team at the Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI) participated in the professor’s animal model experiment for verifying the e

Korean researchers have developed new technology that can detect COVID-19 virus infections within 4 hours at a laboratory.The team led by Lee Chang-joon, director of the Cognitive and Social Sciences Group at the Institute of Basic Science (IBS), announced on March 11 that they have secured a protoc

The Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology has unveiled a groundbreaking technology that can cut the size of all-solid-state batteries while increasing their lifetime and safety.The institute disclosed on March 10 the results of a study on an all-solid-state battery that powers a car to run 800 km

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) announced on March 9 that it has succeeded in developing technology that can store hydrogen in a liquid form.The new hydrogen storage technology developed by KEPCO, which is dubbed liquid organic hydrogen carries (LOHC), can put much more hydrogen in a container th

A team of Korean researchers have developed a new LED material that can replace gallium nitride in producing blue light LEDs. This technological breakthrough was made while Korea has been stepping efforts to reduce its dependence on Japan in the material and parts sectors.The Korea Institute of Scie

The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) announced on March 3 that its Advanced Radiation Technology Institute has succeeded in producing Cu-67 by using its particle accelerator RFT-30 cyclotron.Cu-67 is a radioisotope that emits both cancer diagnostic gamma rays and cancer therapeutic bet

The Korea Institute of Medical Microrobotics (KIMIRo) announced on Feb. 16 that it has succeeded for the first time in the world in knee cartilage regeneration by means of a stem cell held by a microrobot. Details of the research were published in the Science Robotics journal on Jan. 22 after verifi

Prof. Kang Yong-mook at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Korea University and Dr. Wanli Yang at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in California discovered anion oxidation and reduction in LiNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2 (NCM) for the first time in the world. The performance and stability

A new measurement technique has been developed that can detect internal defects of semiconductors or displays with a single image.The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) announced on Feb. 11 that a research team led by Kim Young-shik has developed a three-dimensional measuring

Eco-friendly material development based on coal bottom ash is speeding up these days. According to experts, waste reduction can be achieved and less expensive industrial materials can be obtained by coal bottom ash, which amounts to 1.4 million tons a year, being recycled as concrete admixtures and

The Nuclear Safety and Security Commission announced on Jan. 22 that artificial radionuclides such as cesium-134, cesium-137 and cobalt-60 were released last year to rainwater pipes near evaporation facilities of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) according to the institute’s Jan. 21

A Korean-German joint research team has succeeded in generating the world's first high-output (100 GW), high-quality single-cycle (2.6 femtoseconds) visible laser pulse. The technology is expected to be used for the generation of an isolated attosecond pulse and research on high resolutions in u