1+ week, 9+ hour ago  (315+ words) Chinese Academy of Sciences and BGI map 3 D molecular architecture of jawless vertebrate brain This week's cover of the international journal 'Science' features the lamprey, a jawless primitive vertebrate. The lamprey has changed little in form for about 360 million years,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (643+ words) Earth Love Explorers 14th cohort joins Exalo team to survey myrmecophilous organisms in Gwanak Mountain ant nests "We lifted a stone and there are ants swarming everywhere. Next to the ants we can also see pale-bodied gaemibuchi jumyeoneuri isopods!" On June…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (384+ words) Earth Love Explorers join City Bee citizen scientists to study managed honey bees and climate change impacts over six months Citizen Science Seed is a grant program that supports research projects in which researchers in the environment, safety, and health…...

1+ mon, 21+ min ago  (312+ words) Antarctic ice sheet grows more sensitive to carbon dioxide about 1 million years ago A reconstruction of global ice sheet changes over the past 3 million years confirms that, starting about 1 million years ago, the Antarctic ice sheet began to respond much…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (462+ words) On the 18th, Prof. Son Seok-woo of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Seoul National University gave a special lecture for journalists hosted by the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), under the theme "A re-examination of the monsoon." Prof. Son…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (625+ words) Institute unveils Western Pacific sediment cores with up to 3, 100 ppm rare earths "This red core (a cylindrical sediment sample drilled from the seabed) yielded a high concentration of rare earths, up to 3, 100 ppm. The core next to it was collected…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (177+ words) The 534kg Earth observation satellite was launched aboard a Space X Falcon 9 rocket. The Compact Advanced Satellite 500-2 (CAS500-2), launched on the 3rd, has successfully established communication with a domestic ground station. The Korea Aero Space Administration (KASA) and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (283+ words) The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs held the 'Korea-Vietnam Science, Technology and Innovation Forum' with Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology on the 24th, on the occasion of President Lee Jae-myung's state visit to…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (347+ words) A satellite image of Earth's eastern hemisphere at night graced the cover of this week's international journal 'Nature'. Gold areas represent regions that have become brighter, purple indicates areas that have dimmed, and white shows places that have experienced both....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (253+ words) A joint research team led by Professor Yoon Jin-ho of the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology's (GIST) School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering announced on the 31st that it has identified a structural limitation in Google Deep Mind's AI…...