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China Planning High-Speed Rail Link To London. Popular Science (3/17, Dillow) reports on China's "plans to extend its high-speed network all the way to London" by 2020, "with a rail line that will fly through 17 countries at speeds reaching 200 miles per hour." In all, three lines are being planned. In addition to a link between London and Beijing, "a second line will connect China with Southea..

2010년 3월 21(일)부터 3월 23(화)일까지 2010학년도 1학기 농학과 3학년 출석 수업이 있었습니다. 한국방송통신대학교의 수업 방식은 여러가지가 있으나, 출석수업은 방송과 통신을 통한 원격교육방법이 갖는 한계를 극복하고 교수님과 학생, 학생 상호간의 교류를 활성화하기 위하여 학기당 3과목(1-3학년..

Spider Silk Research Could Lead To Stronger, More Flexible Materials. The Daily Telegraph (UK) (3/15, Alleyne) reports, "Researchers found that spider silk employs a unique crystal structure that converts an otherwise weak material into one stronger and less brittle than steel or ceramics. They believe in future it may be possible to copy spider ingenuity to create new classes of materials that..

Tobacco May Help Clean Up Pond Scum Toxin. Discovery News (3/10) reports tobacco, helped by "a couple extra genes" may disarm "a dangerous environmental toxin, called toxic pond scum," which "is a type of algae that makes water unsafe for drinking, swimming, fishing or watering crops." Pond scum poses "a big problem in the developing world," said Pascal Drake, a plant biotechnologist at St. Geo..

2010년 3월 6일(토) 15:00-18:00 대전충남지역대학 대강당 오늘 오후에는 한국방송통신대학교 입학식에 참석하였다. 농학과 3학년에 편입하여 새로운 경험을 시작하는 날이다. 윤영자 대전충남지역대학장과 서울에서 내려온 각과 교수님들, 동문회장, 역대 학생회장 등이 참석한 입학식이었다. 그동안 농..

2010년 3월 4일(목) (주) KT에서 운영하는 App Store 의 개인 셀러로 등록을 마쳤습니다. 아직은 특별한 Application 을 고려하고 있지는 않지만 무언가 다른 분들에게 행복을 줄수 있는 Item 들을 개발하려고 합니다. 우선은 셀러 등록을 해놓고 Item을 개발해 볼 작정입니다. 내가 잘할 수 있고 다른 ..

South Korea Plans To Launch "National App Store" With Public Data. Popular Science (3/1, Hsu) reports that "the South Korean government hopes to launch its own "national app store" in the form of a universal API for public data, which would encourage private companies and developers to create and sell apps based on that data," according to a Korea Times report. However, "South Korean officials ..

Eurocopter Introduces New, Quieter Blade Technologies. The Wired (2/25, Paur) "Autopia" blog reported Eurocopter "unveiled its most recent effort to reduce helicopter noise with the radical-looking Blue Edge rotor blade." The new blade, which was tested on EC155 helicopters, "was shown to reduce noise 3 to 4 decibels." Additionally the company introduced a new technology called Blue Pulse which..

Researchers To Test Method For Vaccine Production Using Tobacco Plants. The Wired (2/24, Drummond) "Danger Room" blog reports that "a team at Texas A&M may have come up with a way to turn tobacco plants into vaccine-making machines." The Texas Plant-Expressed Vaccine Consortium is receiving $40 million from DARPA to "test the tobacco-based method and then offer up 10 million doses of H1N1 vacci..

DARPA Plans Test Flight For Prototype Hypersonic Weapon. The Wired (2/22, Hodge) "Danger Room" blog reports that DARPA "is planning an April test flight for a prototype of a hypersonic weapon that - in theory - could cross the Pacific Ocean in under two hours." An unpowered version of the Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2) "will be launched on a booster rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Bas..

Remote-Controlled Roaches Could Be Used To Detect Radiation. The Wired (2/17, Drummond) "Danger Room" blog reports, "A team of nuclear engineers at Texas A&M's Nuclear Science and Policy Institute attached radioactivity sensors to the backs of cockroaches, meant to scope out different kinds of nuclear material. The cockroaches are remote-controlled, so officials could unleash them into potentia..

Michigan State University To Establish Bio-Digital Evolution Center. The AP (2/18, Goodman) reports, "The National Science Foundation has awarded $25 million to Michigan State University to create a center for the joint study of natural and digital evolution." According to Erik Goodman, the director of Bio/computational Evolution in Action Consortium, or BEACON, "the center will conduct basic a..

More Wind Tunnel Tests Planned For Ducted-Fan Propulsion System. Aviation Week (2/11, Warwick) reported, "American Dynamics Flight Systems will wind tunnel test the ducted-fan propulsion system for its proposed AD-150 vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aircraft with support from the University of Maryland (UMD)." A scale version of the High Torque Aerial Lift (HTAL) was wind tunnel tested at ..

Laser System Designed To Track, Kill Mosquitoes. The Wired (2/11, Zetter) "Epicenter" blog reports on "a 'Death Star' laser gun" featured at this year's Technology, Entertainment and Design conference that is "designed to track and kill mosquitoes in flight." Intellectual Ventures Laboratory, which developed the device, is "currently examining how cost effective it would be to deploy the device ..

NASA, GM's Robonaut2 To Mimic Human Movement, Behavior. Technology Review (2/12) reports on the Robonaut2, a humanoid robot being developed by NASA and General Motors that "is designed to closely mimic the shape, movement, and behavior of a human." These traits "could make it ideally suited to working alongside humans, or for testing human spacecraft and living quarters, but it also presents so..

Gigabit-Per-Second Wireless Network Uses Infrared Light. Technology Review (2/11, Jonietz) reports that researchers at Penn State have developed "a wireless network that uses reflected infrared light instead of radio waves." The system "has transmitted data through the air at a speed of one gigabit per second--six to 14 times faster than the fastest Wi-Fi network." Valencia M. Joyner, an assist..

Google Announces Ultrahigh-Speed Internet Experiment. On the front page of its business section, the New York Times (2/11, B1, Helft) reports that Google yesterday announced "it would offer ultrahigh-speed Internet access in some communities in a test that could showcase the kinds of things that would be possible if the United States had faster broadband networks. In Google's vision of the futu..

Grant To Fund DNA Factory. The New York Times (2/9, Gross) reports, "With a new $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation, scientists from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley are now designing, making and testing thousands of pieces of DNA in an Emeryville facility which hopes to standardize these parts for the first time." The goal is to give researcher..

Increasing Demand Seen For New Agricultural Technology. The Yuma (AZ) Sun (2/8, Lobeck) reported, "The search is on for new agricultural technology, with the University of Arizona's help." Experts say the movement towards increased mechanization is driven, in part, by declining interest in farm work among young people. Similarly, Mark Siemens of the University of Arizona's Yuma Agricultural Cen..

GM, NASA Join Efforts In New Robot Project. The Detroit Free Press (2/4, Higgins) reports, "After about three years of work," General Motors and NASA were scheduled to show off Thursday "the next generation of an advanced robot that is said to be faster and more dexterous than previous attempts by the agency." The robot "Robonaut2" or R2 "appears in a video to be a sleek humanoid robot and is s..