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IBS climate physics team simulates 3 million years of Antarctic ice sheet change
1+ week, 5+ day 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…...
SNU professor redefines Korea's summer monsoon as rainfall conditions shift
3+ week, 1+ day 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…...
Korea's KIGAM Vows to Surpass China in Rare Earth Processing Technology
3+ week, 6+ day 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…...
Korea's CAS500-2 satellite makes first contact with KARI ground station
1+ mon, 5+ day 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…...
[Science Bulletin] South Korea and Vietnam sign master plan for technology cooperation
1+ mon, 2+ week 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…...
[Science from the Cover] Satellite data reveals Earth's night is both brightening and dimming.
1+ mon, 4+ 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....
[Institutes of S&T NOW] Deep Mind's AI weather model shows limits in simulating the butterfly effect
2+ mon, 1+ 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…...
Lunar eclipse offers chance to study Earth's atmosphere as an exoplanet
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (412+ words) On the evening of the 3rd, a total lunar eclipse will occur, revealing a red moon shrouded in Earth's shadow. This marks the first time in 36 years, since February 10, 1990, that a total lunar eclipse has coincided with Jeongwol Daeboreum, the 15th day…...
Deep-sea mission set to verify controversial 'dark oxygen' hypothesis
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (335+ words) A research team that sparked controversy over the origin of Earth's oxygen by presenting findings on so-called 'dark oxygen'the idea that mineral lumps in the pitch-black, 4000-meter-deep sea could produce and supply oxygen to the planetis set to conduct a…...
Porous Electrode Inspired by Freeze-Drying Improves Hydrogen Fuel Cell Performance
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (360+ words) This content was translated by an AI-powered translation tool. It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. A South Korean research team has successfully boosted fuel cell performance by utilizing a highly porous structure with numerous internal…...