Ciencia, Salud, Empresas, Tecnología
544 noticiasPOSCO completes second Argentine lithium plant, eyes 50,000-ton output
POSCO Holdings held a completion ceremony on 6 October local time for the upstream stage of its second brine lithium plant near the Hombre Muerto salt flat in Argentina, the company said on 7 October. The plant has 23,000 tons of annual lit…
Apple and LG Electronics jointly develop smart home devices under LG brand
Apple and LG Electronics are jointly developing smart home devices — a camera-equipped video doorbell, smart door lock, security camera and smart thermostat — which will be sold under the LG brand, according to Bloomberg reports cited by Ko…
La CEO de AMD, Lisa Su, visitará Corea el 7 de octubre para el Gamer Day; se esperan conversaciones sobre chips de IA
La presidenta y CEO de AMD, Lisa Su, visitará Corea el 7 de octubre, unos siete meses después de su viaje de marzo, para asistir a un evento “AMD Gamer Day” a las 2 p.m. en Dragon City, en Yongsan-gu, Seúl, informó AMD. Su y el vicepresiden…
Nuri rocket lifts off with 15 satellites in fifth launch
South Korea’s Nuri rocket lifted off at 12:25 p.m. local time on Oct 7 from the Naro Space Center in Goheung, carrying 15 satellites, the most in its history. The five main ultra-small cluster satellites were placed in their target orbit, m…
El cohete Nuri despega en su quinto vuelo con un récord de 15 satélites
El cohete Nuri de Corea del Sur fue lanzado a las 12:25 p.m. del 7 de octubre desde el Centro Espacial Naro en Goheung, después de que el comité de gestión del lanzamiento confirmara la hora esa mañana. El cohete transporta 15 satélites —ci…
Muere una investigadora de un laboratorio antípeste ruso; EE. UU. y la UE dicen que están vigilando el caso
Una investigadora de 28 años del instituto de investigación antípeste de Irkutsk, en Shelekhov, Rusia, murió tras ser diagnosticada con una neumonía de causa desconocida, informó el organismo estatal Rospotrebnadzor. Unas 200 personas que p…
Suhyup Bank president selection fails again at second committee vote
Suhyup Bank's bank president recommendation committee failed for a second time on Oct 6 to name a final candidate, because no nominee won the required four votes from the five-member panel. The vote again split 3-2 between incumbent preside…
Former Yaskawa Electric president Masahiro Ogawa dies at 62
Masahiro Ogawa, former president and vice chairman of Yaskawa Electric, died on Oct. 2 of illness at 62, the company announced on Oct. 5. An engineer who spent most of his career in the industrial robot business and helped open the US marke…
Nobel physics prize goes to IceCube neutrino researcher Francis Halzen
Sweden's Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on 6 October that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery…
Burger King ends Yoo Hae-jin ad campaign amid “Assassin(s)” dispute and boycott calls
Burger King ended its advertising campaign featuring actor Yoo Hae-jin for the autumn menu item Truffle Mushroom Whopper, about two weeks after the product's Sept 16 launch, as online calls to boycott products he advertises spread amid the …
Nongshim floats 6-meter Shin Ramyun cup on London's Thames in brand campaign
Nongshim said it floated a roughly 6-meter-tall Shin Ramyun cup sculpture along the River Thames in London, departing Royal Docks on the afternoon of Oct 6 local time and passing the London Eye and Big Ben. The company said the installation…
Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube neutrino work
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics to Francis Halzen for his decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. Halzen, born in Bel…
Rusia pone en cuarentena un hospital tras la muerte de una trabajadora de laboratorio que deja casi 200 personas bajo observación
Una empleada del Instituto de Investigación Antipeste de Siberia y Extremo Oriente de Irkutsk murió la semana pasada de neumonía de causa desconocida, informaron las autoridades rusas, y un hospital de la localidad de Shelekhov fue puesto e…
El Nobel de Medicina va para tres investigadores por la optogenética
El Instituto Karolinska anunció el 5 de octubre que el Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina de 2026 es para Karl Deisseroth, de la Universidad de Stanford; Peter Hegemann, de la Universidad Humboldt de Berlín, y Georg Nagel, de la Universi…
El regulador antimonopolio de Japón registra Asahi, Kirin, Suntory y Sapporo por un cártel de precios de la cerveza
La Comisión de Comercio Justo de Japón inició el 7 de octubre una investigación forzosa contra Asahi Beer, Kirin Beer, Suntory y Sapporo Beer por sospecha de violación de la Ley Antimonopolio en relación con los precios de la cerveza. Se so…
MBK's 2.4 mln Homeplus shares cancelled free of charge; 600 bln won burden stays
MBK Partners' 2.4 million Homeplus common shares, acquired for about 2.5 trillion won, were cancelled without compensation on September 14 under a court-approved rehabilitation plan, Bloter and Korean business outlets reported. MBK and Chai…
Paramount Skydance closes $110bn Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition
Paramount Skydance completed its purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery for $110bn, and the combined company is named Skydance. Its shares will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SKYD, while WBD shares stopped trading on Nasd…
Nuri rocket deploys 15 satellites on fifth flight; final success verdict due
South Korea's Nuri rocket lifted off at 12:25 p.m. local time from the Naro Space Center in Goheung and completed its flight, separating all 15 satellites aboard — five NEONSAT cluster satellites and ten cube satellites, according to the Ko…
Nuri rocket lifts off at 12:25 with 15 satellites on fifth flight
South Korea's Nuri launch vehicle lifted off at 12:25 local time on Oct 7 from the second pad of the Naro Space Center in Goheung, carrying five ultra-small cluster satellites and 10 cubesats. Kerosene and liquid oxygen loading was complete…
Cohete Nuri erigido en la plataforma de lanzamiento antes de su quinto vuelo el 7 de octubre
El cohete Nuri de Corea del Sur se trasladó desde su edificio de ensamblaje a la segunda plataforma de lanzamiento en el Centro Espacial Naro, en Goheung, en la mañana del 6 de octubre y fue erigido y fijado en su lugar a las 10:35, según l…