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A sustained high-temperature fusion plasma regime facilitated by fast ions

A sustained high-temperature fusion plasma regime facilitated by fast ions

Prof. Yong-Su Na

Nuclear fusion is one of the most attractive alternatives to carbon-dependent energy sources1. Harnessing energy from nuclear fusion in a large reactor scale, however, still presents many scientific challenges despite the many years of research and steady advances in magnetic confinement approaches.

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The SARS-CoV-2 RNA interactome

The SARS-CoV-2 RNA interactome

Prof. V. Narry Kim

SARS-CoV-2 is an RNA virus whose success as a pathogen relies on its abilities to repurpose host RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) and to evade antiviral RBPs.

Disease-specific eQTL screening reveals an anti-fibrotic effect of AGXT2 in non-alcoholic fatty live...

Disease-specific eQTL screening reveals an anti-fibrotic effect of AGXT2 in non-alcoholic fatty live...

Genome-wide association studies have revealed a limited contribution of genomic variants to the disease, requiring alternative but robust approaches to identify disease-associated variants and genes.

Primate ventral striatum maintains neural representations of the value of previously rewarded object...

Primate ventral striatum maintains neural representations of the value of previously rewarded object...

Prof. Hyoung F. Kim

The ventral striatum (VS) is considered a key region that flexibly updates recent changes in reward values for habit learning.

High–load capacity origami transformable wheel

High–load capacity origami transformable wheel

Prof. Kyu-Jin Cho

Composite membrane origami has been an efficient and effective method for constructing transformable mechanisms while considerably simplifying their design, fabrication, and assembly; however, its limited load-bearing capability has restricted its application potential.

Professor Byung-Gon Chun's Research Team develop the World Leading Fuzzing Technology That Finds Key...

Professor Byung-Gon Chun's Research Team develop the World Leading Fuzzing Technology That Finds Key...

Prof. Byung-Gon Chun

Professor Byung-Gon Chun and Dr. Youngseok Yang of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National University developed a multi-transaction differential fuzzer to find Ethereum consensus bugs through their joint research with Professor Taesoo Kim of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Akkermansia muciniphila secretes a glucagon-like peptide-1-inducing protein that improves glucose ho...

Akkermansia muciniphila secretes a glucagon-like peptide-1-inducing protein that improves glucose ho...

Prof. GwangPyo Ko

The gut microbiota, which includes Akkermansia muciniphila, is known to modulate energy metabolism, glucose tolerance, immune system maturation and function in humans.

Direct radiative forcing of biomass burning aerosols from the extensive Australian wildfires in 2019...

Direct radiative forcing of biomass burning aerosols from the extensive Australian wildfires in 2019...

Prof. Sujong Jeong

In 2019, an unusually strong positive Indian Ocean Dipole spawned hot and dry weather in southeastern Australia, which promoted devastating wildfires in the period from September 2019 to February 2020.

Three-dimensional nanoprinting via charged aerosol jets

Three-dimensional nanoprinting via charged aerosol jets

Prof. Mansoo Choi

Here we introduce a technique for direct 3D printing of arrays of metal nanostructures with flexible geometry and feature sizes down to hundreds of nanometres, using various materials.

Overlimiting Current in Nonuniform Arrays of Microchannels: Recirculating Flow and Anticrystallizati...

Overlimiting Current in Nonuniform Arrays of Microchannels: Recirculating Flow and Anticrystallizati...

Prof. Sung Jae Kim

Overlimiting current (OLC) through electrolytes interfaced with perm-selective membranes has been extensively researched for understanding fundamental nano-electrokinetics and developing efficient engineering applications.

Direct 2D-to-3D transformation of pen drawings

Direct 2D-to-3D transformation of pen drawings

Prof. Sunghoon Kwon

Pen drawing is a method that allows simple, inexpensive, and intuitive two-dimensional (2D) fabrication. To integrate such advantages of pen drawing in fabricating 3D objects, we developed a 3D fabrication technology that can directly transform pen-drawn 2D precursors into 3D geometries.

Lenslet VR: Thin, Flat and Wide-FOV Virtual Reality Display Using Fresnel Lens and Lenslet Array

Lenslet VR: Thin, Flat and Wide-FOV Virtual Reality Display Using Fresnel Lens and Lenslet Array

Prof. Byoungho Lee

We propose a new thin and flat virtual reality (VR) display design using a Fresnel lenslet array, a Fresnel lens, and a polarization-based optical folding technique. The proposed optical system has a wide field of view (FOV) of 102˚×102˚, a wide eye-box of 8.8 mm, and an ergonomic eye-relief of 20 mm. Simultaneously, o...

A new ankylosaurid skeleton from the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia: its implica...

A new ankylosaurid skeleton from the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia: its implica...

Prof. Yuong-Nam Lee

A new articulated postcranial specimen of an indeterminate ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (middle-upper Campanian) Baruungoyot Formation from Hermiin Tsav, southern Gobi Desert, Mongolia includes twelve dorsal vertebrae, ribs, pectoral girdles, forelimbs, pelvic girdles, hind limbs, and free osteoderms.