지구에서 가장 오랫동안 사는 생물은 누구일까요? 현재까지 살아있는 육지 동물 중 가장 나이가 많은 동물은 190살 된 거북이 ‘조너선’이에요. 조너선은 멸종위기종★으로 분류된 세이셸코끼리거북이지요. 그런데, 190살보다 훨씬 더 오래 살 수 있는 생물이 존재해요. 미국의 과학 매체인 ‘ ...
research for better results. “I want to contribute to making the earth a better place to live and help the students behind me realize their own dreams through the student mentoring program,” he stated. Rahimipetroudi preparing an experiment related to smart heat treatment technology at a KIER laboratory (top) Rahimipetroudi with Professor Dong Sang-Keun in front of the KIER laboratory ...
교수는 ‘고약한 맛: 음식의 풍미에 숨은 모험과 과학(In Bad Taste: The Adventures and Science Behind Food Delicacies)’이라는 책에서 사향고양이는 커피콩을 소화시키지 못하지만 뱃속에 있는 소화효소, 특히 단백질 분해효소가 커피콩 껍질에 있는 단백질을 펩티드 사슬과 다양한 아미노산으로 분해한다고 ...
2014년 크리스마스를 며칠 앞둔 어느 날, 노르웨이 남동부, 특히 오슬로 주변의 광활한 하늘에 ‘진주구름’이라고 부르는 기상현상이 나타났습니다. 당시 ... M. Fikke et al., ‘Screaming Clouds’(doi:10.1002/wea.2786)Olson, Donald W. et al., ‘When the Sky Ran Red: The Story Behind the ‘Scream’’, Sky&Telescope, Feb 2004 ...
알아낸다고 한다. The secret codes typed in by banking customers can be recorded using the residual heat left behind on the keypad, says a group of researchers from the University of California at San Diego. An infrared camera could reveal which keys you pressed. The group’s paper, presented earlier this month at the USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies, shows that a digital ...
single network, creating a social entity twice as large as the U.S. If Facebook was a country it'd be the 3rd largest, behind only China and India.Zuckerberg says : “We’re trying to map out what exists in the world. In the world, there is trust. So at its core, what we’re trying to map out is all of those trust relationships, which you can call friendships.” He calls this map the ...
was described by one researcher as ‘a defining moment of new paradigm in biology’.Craig Venter, the U.S. scientist behind this experiment, said the achievement heralds the dawn of a new era - an era in which new life is made to benefit humanity, starting with bacteria that churn out biofuels, that soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as a solution to the global warming, and that even ...
lives for the better. Across the developing world, around 45 by 2005 the number had climbed above 60%. That’s way behind the developed countries such as the U.S., where there are more TVs than people, but it dwarfs worldwide Internet access. Five million more households in sub-Saharan Africa will get a TV over the next five years. In 2005, after the fall of the Taliban, which had outlawed ...
to 90% that public health experts normally view as a minimum threshold for an infectious-disease vaccine. Even further behind in development, but still promising, are two new antibodies identified by a group of researchers working at a number of labs that, at least in a dish, seem to neutralize the virus and thwart attempts to infect healthy cells.The excitement over those advances however, ...
관련된 내용이 눈길을 끈다. 한명의 아이도 뒤처지지 않게 하겠다는 ‘NCLB’(No Child Left Behind) 법안은 초·중·고등과정의 수학과 과학교육을 강화하기 위한 아낌없는 투자를 예고했다. 특히 ‘Math Now’프로그램은 모든 학생이 수학에 뒤처지지 않도록 수학의 ‘가로획’을 늘리려는 전략이다.1970년대 ...