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Jung's paternity reveal exposes where Korea stands on extramarital babies
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Samsung entangled in legal risks amid calls for drastic reform
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Heavy snow alerts issued in greater Seoul area, Gangwon Province; over 20 cm of snow seen in Seoul
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[Herald Interview] 'Trump will use tariffs as first line of defense for American manufacturing'
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Agency says Jung Woo-sung unsure on awards attendance after lovechild revelations
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[Health and care] Getting cancer young: Why cancer isn’t just an older person’s battle
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K-pop fandoms wield growing influence over industry decisions
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Korea's auto industry braces for Trump’s massive tariffs in Mexico
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[Graphic News] International marriages on rise in Korea
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Seoul's first snowfall could hit hard, warns weather agency
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'Bloodletting' may be beneficial
Bloodletting as a medical treatment was abandoned in the 19th century, but German researchers said blood donation is beneficial to the donor.Professor Andreas Michalsen of the Charite-University Medical Centre in Berlin and colleagues at the University Duisburg-Essen said donating blood can provide medical benefits for obese people with metabolic syndrome -- which includes insulin resistance, glu
May 31, 2012
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Scientists decode tomato genome
Scientists have sequenced the entire genome of the tomato in an international project that promises enhanced versions of the fruit.The study, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, has been conducted since 2004 by more than 300 scientists from 14 countries including a Korean team that mapped out one of the 12 chromosomes.“We have identified 35,000 genes in the tomato genome. This will be of
May 31, 2012
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Americans' skulls getting bigger over time
American heads are getting larger although it's unclear why that is happening, forensic anthropologists at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, said.Examining 1,500 skulls dating back to the mid-1800s through the mid-1980s, the researchers found U.S. skulls have become larger, taller and narrower as seen from the front and faces have become significantly narrower and higher, a UT release report
May 31, 2012
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New theory addresses frozen Earth paradox
A U.S. scientist says he has a theory why a much fainter sun 2 billion years ago didn't leave a frozen Earth unfit to develop the kind of life we see today.Why the Earth avoided the deep freeze in what has been dubbed the Faint Young Sun Paradox is a much-debated question among scientists, but Purdue University's David Minton says he believes he might have an answer."If you go back in time to abou
May 31, 2012
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Israelis develop 'cannabis without the high'
Israeli scientists have cultivated a cannabis plant that doesn't get people stoned in a development that may help those smoking marijuana for medical purposes, a newspaper said on Wednesday.According to the Maariv daily, the new cannabis looks, smells and even tastes the same, but does not induce any of the feelings normally associated with smoking marijuana that are brought on by the substance TH
May 31, 2012
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Genes make difference if quitting smoking
Genetics can predict success of smoking cessation and whether a person is likely to respond to drugs for nicotine addiction, U.S. researchers say.“We found that the effects of smoking cessation medications depend on a person’s genes,” first author Dr. Li-Shiun Chen of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, said in a statement.The research focused on specific variations in a clu
May 31, 2012
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Red Hat to support Korean financial firms’ migration to open-source platforms
Top business-to-business software firm eyes expansion in handling large data setsWhen people generally think of open-source platforms in Korea, Google’s Android immediately comes to mind due to the wide use of smartphones and tablet PCs in the business-to-consumer space.But in the business-to-business world, U.S.-headquartered Red Hat provides the world’s leading open-source operating systems for enterprises’ data-processing servers.Working “behind the scenes,” it’s unknown to the general publi
May 30, 2012
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New-found asteroid whizz by Earth, no danger
A small asteroid had a close encounter with Earth on Tuesday, according to NASA scientists.The 5-meter space rock, called 2012 KP42, was not spotted until a day before it came within 14,400 kilometers of Earth. Its closest approach to Earth was less than one-26th of the average distance between the planet and the moon, which is 386,000 kilometers.However, given its diminutive size, experts say it was unlikely to cause significant damage to the Earth anyway. The close call on Tuesday came only a
May 30, 2012
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Apple chief vows innovation in TV and more
Apple chief Tim Cook on Tuesday vowed that creativity would remain in the company's "DNA" and hinted that products on the horizon could come in the area of television.Cook was the star opening guest at a prestigious All Things Digital conference hosted by the Rupert Murdoch-owned technology news website at a resort in the Southern California town of Palos Verdes."We're going to introduce some grea
May 30, 2012
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Woman fails to get compensation for lost teeth
A mother has been left toothless after a dental implant went terribly wrong.Gariela Andrews, 48, says that she cannot get compensation for the failed surgery as the private dentist who was in charge of the procedure has moved to another country, complicating matters.“I have been left looking like a monster,” she told the Daily Mail. “My confidence has been affected, my speech has been affected, I can’t eat solid food and nobody does you justice.”The General Dental Council has suspended the licen
May 30, 2012
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Occupy stone street? Study shows Inequality dates back to stone age
Scientists found that hereditary inequality began over 7,000 years ago by looking at human skeletons buried during the early Neolithic era, Science Daily and BBC reported Monday.The study, conducted by archaeologists from universities of Bristol, Oxford and Cardiff found that ancient people that were buried with tools had better access to preferred farmlands than those without. Researchers used strontium isotope analysis that lets them know the skeletons’ place of origin. Since the people with t
May 30, 2012
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New R&D center to study smart IT convergence
A new research and development center will open on Wednesday devoted to the convergence of information technology with biology, nano-science and other cutting edge fields.The Center for Integrated Smart Sensors in Daejeon is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Under the ministry’s “Global Frontier” project aimed at securing world-leading original technologies by 2020, seven R&D centers have been set up since 2010.The new lab will develop nano-scale devices, sensor sys
May 29, 2012
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State regulations hamper innovation: Wikipedia founder
The government should “keep out of the way” if it wants more people to come out with innovative ideas and start new businesses, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said Tuesday.“The most important thing in the government’s policy about start-ups is how to get the government out of the way,” said the pioneer of the free encyclopedia.Wales was invited to give a special speech to the young Korean entrepreneurs at the 2012 Venture-Startup Festival held at Seoul National University.Wales claimed that in
May 29, 2012
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Samsung’s Galaxy S3 hit shelves in 28 nations
South Korea's Samsung Electronics said it would start selling its newest smartphone in 28 countries from Tuesday as it seeks to cement its position as the world's top-selling mobile phone maker. The Galaxy S3, unveiled in London earlier this month, will hit shelves Tuesday in nations including Britain, France and the United Arab Emirates, the firm said in a statement. The phone will be available i
May 29, 2012
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Senior gardening plans save money, improve quality of life
A project in Britain that paired seniors and gardening enthusiasts increased the quality of life of both and saved healthcare funds, officials said. Sarah Jackson, a horticulturalist, found volunteers who had no access to land to plant a garden with older people who wanted to maintain their gardens but could no longer work on them anymore. Three years later, Jackson said not only did the elderly
May 29, 2012
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Pointy faces are perceived negatively
The simple geometric features of a downward-pointing triangle can make us feel threatened, scientists have revealed.Researchers from Warwick University asked thirty volunteers to rate hundreds of pictures of faces that were surrounded by large triangles.When a downward-pointing triangle appeared, people were more hesitant to identify the face as positive.“Our study shows downward-pointing triangles in particular convey negative emotions and we pick up on them quickly and perceive them as a threa
May 29, 2012
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Police: Facebook pic led to robbery
Police in Australia are warning people to be cautious online after a picture of cash posted to Facebook led to a home invasion robbery.New South Wales police said a 17-year-old girl was helping her 72-year-old grandmother count her savings at the older woman's Sydney home May 24 and the teenager posted a picture of the large amount of cash to her Facebook page.Police said two men armed with a kni
May 29, 2012
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Korea to launch geostationary research satellite in 2018
South Korea plans to launch its own geostationary orbit satellite by 2018 for atmospheric environmental research over the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia, the Environment Ministry said MondayThe National Institute of Environmental Research will pick a foreign firm within this year to jointly develop the new satellite, officials said.Under the development plan, Seoul is to build the main body of the satellite and a ground station for its launch in 2015. Europe and the U.S. currently use low-e
May 28, 2012
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Is sewage the next energy source?
New research improves microbial fuel cells that feed on waste waterKorean scientists have reported major progress in turning microbes in waste water into sources of electricity.The researchers from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology claimed that they have significantly improved the capacity of microbial fuel cells by modulizing them. The device converts the chemical energy from organisms into electricity using bacterial metabolism as the catalyst. It is regarded as one of the most p
May 28, 2012
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LG Display develops hand-size HD panel for smartphones
Consumers will soon be able to enjoy watching high-resolution content on their mobile devices LG Display, the world’s second-largest display maker, has developed a new five-inch display panel for smartphones.The display giant said Monday that it has for the first time in the world developed the small-sized, full high-definition LCD panel using advanced high performance in-plane switching technology.Measuring the new panel’s density at 440 pixels per inch, the company said the image quality shown
May 28, 2012
