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Engineering college of Seoul National University, South Korea's leading research university, covering materials science and other engineering fields.
Seoul National University researchers raised the desired product share from about 16% to 97% by controlling acidity near electrodes. The route uses oxygen and electricity instead of added peroxides, and the figures come from the university's own summary.
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Seoul National University told a lawmaker that 1,130 of the 1,132 records leaked in 28 hacking incidents since 2021 came from a single 2021 attack. Departmental systems were hit most often, so attack frequency and data loss need separate explanations.
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Ocean-bottom seismometers show the mantle under the 160- to 180-million-year-old Pacific Triangle was shaped by more than plate motion. YoungHee Kim of Seoul National University and colleagues say fossil fabric and present-day flow may coexist there, so plate-motion-only models of this patch need revising.
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This El Niño is already the strongest on record, running 3.4C above average in an equatorial Pacific region and still climbing, New Scientist reports. The larger worry is climate regime shifts that could persist for decades after the Pacific cools.
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CEO Score counts 46 of 49 fourth- and fifth-generation chaebol heirs as educated abroad, 33 of them starting as undergraduates. With the third generation already at 78.7%, anyone judging the next owners has to look at the age at which heirs leave Korea.
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Pusan National University researchers found rolled AZ31 magnesium plates absorbed 6.5% to 6.7% more impact energy when struck along the normal direction. How the plates broke differed more than the energy did, in tests of one alloy at a single impact speed.
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Jaeyune Ryu's team at Seoul National University raised selectivity for lactones and epoxides from about 16% to 97% by redesigning the reactor around local pH. Its levers were electrode spacing and electrolyte flow, so cell shape now counts alongside catalyst choice in oxygen-driven oxidation.
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KAIST and Seoul National University's AgSpec nearly doubles accepted draft length for coding agents by indexing files in the diff and JSON forms agents emit. It lives entirely in the retrieval index and leaves model weights untouched.
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Ultium Cells, GM's venture with LG Energy Solution, will finish retooling its Tennessee plant for LMR cells by 2028, aiming at LFP cost with 33% more density. The plan puts a date on a U.S.-made cell meant to sit between low-cost LFP and energy-dense high-nickel chemistries.
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Physicists at two Seoul universities map one atom's interaction with light as a semi-infinite graph and place weak through deep-strong coupling on one scale. The work is theory, and its use for devices depends on whether the index tracks something a lab can measure.
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Jongno Academy counted 99,883 early applications at Pusan, Chonnam and Chungnam for 2027, up 11.6% in the first cycle after each was promised 70 billion won a year, with 63% of the gain at Pusan alone.
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A Seoul National University group rearranged a self-splicing intron so bacterial transcripts join their own ends inside the cell. Most of the extra protein came from mRNA that lasts longer, and the design worked in three hosts.
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Ring-shaped polylactide mixed much further into a chemically identical layer than the linear version of the same chain length. A prediction from 1986 finally has a direct measurement at a real polymer interface.
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The three-year treasury yield closed at 4.014% and WTI at $102.48, the KOSPI gave up the 7,000 level, and the money leaving Korea's safest funds landed in brokerage accounts with margin debt already at 32.36 trillion won.
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A new model has the world's largest carbon sink turning into a source once concentrations start falling, with two heat-driven feedbacks amplifying the outgassing for centuries after net zero and capping what removal delivers.
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A Seoul National University team varied the ozone dose during deposition, then watched 10-nanometre films crystallize under synchrotron X-rays, and the vacancy-rich ones crystallized later while holding on to the nonferroelectric phase.
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A team led by Ho Won Jang used language models to pull 1,202 property records out of published work, screened about 150 million candidate compositions down to 37, and synthesized two.
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