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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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S. Korean children, teens grow taller, mature faster than before: study
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[Graphic News] Number of coffee franchises in S. Korea rises 13%
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Some junior doctors are returning: Health Ministry
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Army takes group action against Hybe for neglecting BTS
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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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[Robert J. Fouser] AI changes rationale for learning languages
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Woman dangling from power lines rescued by residents holding blanket
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Ador CEO's request for exclusive right to terminate NewJeans' contract with Hybe refused in February
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After marriage: Men drink less, women more
Men who drink tend to stem their alcohol use once they marry, while women tend to increase their drinking after marriage, U.S. researchers found. Corinne Reczek of the University of Cincinnati, Tetyana Pudrovska of Pennsylvania State University, Deborah Carr of Rutgers University and Debra Umberson of the University of Texas at Austin found married men reported consuming the lowest number of drinks compared with single, divorced and widowed men.The researchers analyzed survey data from the Wisco
Aug. 20, 2012
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NASA rover Curiosity shoots a Mars rock with laser
NASA’s Curiosity rover has zapped its first Martian rock, aiming its laser for the sake of science.During the target practice on Sunday, Curiosity fired 30 pulses at a nearby rock over a 10-second window, burning a small hole.Since landing in Gale Crater two weeks ago, the six-wheel rover has been checking out its instruments including the laser. During its two-year mission, Curiosity was expected to point the laser at various rocks as it drives toward Mount Sharp, a 3-mile (5-kilometer)-high mo
Aug. 20, 2012
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Near-speed-of-light collisions fundamental to rare isotope generation
Since opening the Korea-U.S. Cooperation Center for Accelerator Science and beginning work on the design of the rare isotope accelerator, the Institute for Basic Science has sped up preparations for the country’s first particle accelerator of its kind. The purpose of a rare isotope accelerator is to produce isotopes of elements that do not or rarely occur naturally. An isotope is a variant of an element that has a different number of neutrons in the nucleus.Under the plans the IBS’ accelerator,
Aug. 19, 2012
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CO2 emissions in U.S. drop to 20-year low
PITTSBURGH (AP) ― The amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years, and government officials say the biggest reason is that cheap and plentiful natural gas has led many power plant operators to switch from dirtier-burning coal.Many of the world’s leading climate scientists didn’t see the drop coming, in large part because it happened as a result of market forces rather than direct government action against carbon
Aug. 19, 2012
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Star births seen on cosmic scale in distant galaxy
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It is a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year.Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about 740 new stars a year. By comparison, our Milky Way galaxy spawns just about one new star each year.The galaxy is about 5.7 billion light years away in the center of a recently discovered cluster of galaxies that give off the brightest X-ray glow astronomers ha
Aug. 19, 2012
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‘Basic science research key to nation’s advancement’
New research institute hopes to bring big changes for nation’s science communityThe Institute for Basic Science will change the way Korea carries out research and development to allow creative and original research, according the organization’s first chief Oh Se-jung. The institute launched in November seeks to hire top-class scientists from across the world.“Our target is not just for Korea, but a research institution that can compete on the international stage,” Oh said. Oh said that while Kor
Aug. 19, 2012
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U.S. men prefer beer, women love wine
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- U.S. men like to drink beer, though wine is the beverage of choice for women and older adults, a poll showed Friday.The annual Gallup poll found that, as with previous years, wine drinkers are mostly based on the East Coast while beer aficionados live in the Midwest.Drinking is commonplace in the United States, with two thirds (66 percent) of Americans saying they consume alcohol, and 44 percent saying they drank at least one alcoholic beverage a week.While just 12 percent of
Aug. 19, 2012
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New spider family found in U.S. caves
A team of amateur cave explorers and arachnologists has found a new family of spiders in caves and old-growth redwood forests in Oregon and California, US researchers said Friday.Entomologists at the California Academy of Sciences said the spider, named Trogloaptor -- or "cave robber" -- for its lethal front claws, had such unique evolutionary features that it represented not just a new genus or s
Aug. 19, 2012
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Websites banned from collecting IDs
Companies that own and operate Internet businesses will be forbidden from collecting customers’ resident identification numbers beginning Saturday.This comes after a law revision by the Korea Communications Commission intended to protect consumers from having their ID numbers, which are equivalent to U.S. Social Security numbers, stolen.The KCC, the country’s communications watchdog and policymaking body, said Friday in a statement that the law will be enforced against all Internet or informatio
Aug. 17, 2012
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Apple’s iPad Mini likely to a scaled-up iPod Touch
The iPad Mini will be more like a larger version of the iPod Touch rather than a smaller version of the iPad. Several industry sources speculated that the new gadget will not be a revolutionary redesign. However, it will have slimmer bezels along its sides to make for easier use and will also have a 7-inch screen, positioning it to rival Google’s popular Nexus tablet. What is to give the iPad Mini its edge is its rumored larger 4:3 display. Eddy Cue, Apple’s Vice President, stated that the late
Aug. 17, 2012
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Malware targeting Android devices rising
The amount of malware targeting Android devices such as smartphones and tablets tripled in the second quarter of 2012, a Russian security firm says.Security company Kaspersky Labs said malware specifically targeting Android-based phones, tablets and computers increased by a significant amount in the quarter, SlashGear reported Thursday.Kaspersky said 14,900 new malicious programs targeting Android devices were added to its database of malware threats, up from 5,441 in the first quarter.Almost ha
Aug. 17, 2012
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Jellyfish scare spreads along the coast
Holidaymakers and fishermen are worried about giant toxic jellyfish showing up in Korea’s coastal areas in record numbers this summer.A girl was killed earlier this month and more than 500 people have been stung by jellyfish in the seas around Busan this season. The southern resort island of Jeju saw more than 130 people stung.Although there have been reports in China and Southeast Asia of deaths caused by poisonous jellyfish, Korea was considered relatively safe from them. However, the scare is
Aug. 16, 2012
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Ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer accounts for 4.2 percent of all cancers in women and has the highest incidence rate among all genitourinary cancers in women following cervical cancer in Korea. There is growing concern about ovarian cancer as its incidence rate is on the rise every year with approximately 1,400 newly-diagnosed patients annually, whereas the incidence rate of cervical cancer is gradually decreasing.The ovaries are small organs located in the female pelvis which are found in pairs on either side of
Aug. 16, 2012
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Malaria haunts border areas
Soured inter-Korean ties stymie efforts to control mosquitoesFears of malaria haunt South Koreans living near the border with North Korea, as soured inter-Korean ties take their toll on efforts to control the disease-carrying mosquitoes that fly freely across the heavily-fortified De-Militarized Zone. South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a malaria warning for parts of Incheon, Gangwon Province and some northern areas of Gyeonggi Province, all near the northern bord
Aug. 16, 2012
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Smoking ups ALS risk, alcohol lowers it
The risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis was lower among alcohol drinkers than among abstainers, and higher in smokers, U.S. and European researchers say.Andrew Waterhouse of the University of California, Davis, and other members of the International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research reviewed the paper and said the study, which it called well-done, involved almost 500 cases of ALS, or Lou Gehrig‘s disease.The reviewers said they were especially struck by the magnitude of the difference in ri
Aug. 16, 2012
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Samsung rolls out Galaxy Note 10.1 in Korea
Samsung Electronics Co., the world‘s top smartphone maker, said Thursday it has started selling the Galaxy Note 10.1 on its home turf, the latest version of its Galaxy Note lineup, whose sales topped 10 million units worldwide.The Galaxy Note 10.1, which was first showcased at the Mobile World Congress earlier this year, is an enlarged version of the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note, a hybrid of a smartphone and a tablet PC.Both models feature the S Pen, a stylus that enables users to doodle and write on th
Aug. 16, 2012
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Why incompetent people are often promoted
(123rf)The lure of social status promotes overconfidence and helps explain why there is such an abundance of delusional confidence, U.S. and Spanish researchers say.The study, scheduled to be published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, sheds light on why incompetent people are so often promoted over their more competent peers.Study co-authors Cameron Anderson, Don Moore and Jess
Aug. 16, 2012
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West Nile virus kills 17 in Texas, sickens hundreds
(123rf)The southwestern US state of Texas is battling an outbreak of the West Nile virus, with 17 deaths blamed on the mosquito-borne disease, authorities said Wednesday.Throughout the state 465 people have been sickened since the start of the year, putting it on track to have the most cases since the disease first emerged a decade ago, the Texas Department of State Health Services said.The county
Aug. 16, 2012
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Samsung witness says Apple saw his ‘tablet’ long before iPad
Apple Inc. saw a prototype for a tablet computer more than a decade before the iPad was released in 2010, according to a news technology developer called as a trial witness by Samsung Electronics Co. Videotaped testimony by Roger Fidler, who heads the digital publishing program at the University of Missouri, was shown Wednesday to the jury in Samsung’s multibillion-dollar intellectual property dispute with Apple over smartphones and tablets. Fidler said in a written declaration he started workin
Aug. 15, 2012
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LG’s LTE handset sales top 5 million globally
LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday shipments of smartphones that run on the long-term evolution network have surpassed the 5 million mark, as it seeks to return its struggling mobile business to the black.Global sales of LTE smartphones topped the 5 million mark, one month after surpassing the 4 million mark in mid-July, the company said in a statement.The milestone comes 15 months after LG released its first LTE smartphone overseas via Verizon Wireless in the United States.Since May 2011, the c
Aug. 15, 2012