A clock tied to the orbiting of an atom’s neutron could gain or lose less than a second in 14 billion years, the age of the universe, Australian scientists say.“This is nearly 100 times more accurate than the best atomic clocks we have now,” said one of the researchers proposing such a “nuclear” clo

March 9, 2012

Have you ever imagined people walking along the street, digitally scanning and analyzing the information of their surroundings on the spot? This may become a reality as Google is expected to start selling eyeglasses that project information, entertainment and advertisements onto the lenses. According to the New York Times, the glasses are not designed to be worn constantly ― although Google engineers expect some users will wear them a lot ― but will be more like smartphones, used when needed, wi

March 8, 2012

Scientists have succeeded in measuring an atom made of antimatter for the first time ever, marking a giant step toward finding out how universe is formed, livescience.com reported Wednesday.According to scientists all particles of matter have antimatter partners with equal mass and opposite charge. When the two parts meet, they destroy each other and become pure energy.However, measuring antimatter had been impossible since universe is made of matter. It is thought that the universe contained eq

March 8, 2012

Police said Thursday that they have booked five workers of a company subcontracted by the country's two major mobile carriers for their suspected leaks of customers' personal and real-time location information in return for financial profits. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said the workers, in

March 8, 2012

A panel of experts will start reviewing launch plans for the country’s first space rocket this week, which could help set a specific blastoff date, the government said Thursday.A review committee will hold its first meeting Friday after the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology filed its request for a launch late last month.The ministry said earlier that the launch, which will be the third of its kind, will likely take place before October. The first two launches of South Korea’s first l

March 8, 2012

Our ancestors made the evolutionary split with gorillas around 10 million years ago, but we still share a remarkable number of genes with the great ape, according to a groundbreaking study published on Wednesday. A worldwide consortium of scientists sequenced the genome of the western lowland gor

March 8, 2012

 More scientists are getting closer in the search for the ``God particle'' of physics that would help explain the fundamentals of the universe, but they haven't found it yet.    In the hunt for the Higgs boson, which is key to understanding why matter has mass, two teams of physi

March 7, 2012

Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc., the world’s two biggest TV makers, want to widen their lead over Japanese rivals by using new display technology in 55-inch sets thinner than Apple Inc.’s iPad. The South Korean companies are developing organic light- emitting diode, or OLED, televisions that are as thin as 4 millimeters (0.16 inches) and produce images 200 times sharper than current liquid-crystal-display models. Both plan to start selling OLED sets as early as this year, while S

March 7, 2012

Scientists claim they found evidence indicating a major cosmic impact on Earth 12,900 years ago. An international team of researchers, including James Kennett, professor of earth science at UC Santa Barbara, uncovered an almost 13,000-year-old layer of dark sediment beneath Lake Cuitzeo in central Mexico containing materials than can “form only through cosmic impact.”The nanodiamonds and spherules identified in the sediment layer show features that could not have formed through anthropogenic, vo

March 7, 2012

Cheap tablets looming threat to Samsung and LGDeck: Samsung diversifies lineup to counter threat while LG remains skeptical of their successBy Cho Ji-hyunThe local tablet PC market is being challenged by online shopping malls selling low-priced tablet PCs to consumers here through joining hands with smaller manufacturers.Samsung Electronics, the country’s biggest IT firm, has unveiled plans to release low-tier tablets in the first half of the year, while its rival LG Electronics has no plans to

March 7, 2012