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KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) is a top South Korean research university known for engineering, computer science, and AI research.
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KAIST researchers report in Scientific Reports that people primed to feel secure in a group wrote more detailed, persuasive dissenting arguments. The tests used hypothetical scenarios, so they say more about the quality of dissent than about whether real teams avoid groupthink.
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KAIST-led chemists filmed azobenzene's first picoseconds with ultrafast X-rays, finding a nitrogen-centred twist behind a switch debated for nearly 50 years. Designers of light-driven materials and molecular machines now have a measured mechanism to work from.
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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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NVIDIA and KAIST researchers lifted a 9B terminal agent from 50.00% to 68.03% Pass@1 by letting a stronger model pick among eight commands per turn. A 9B judge trained on that model's preferences reached 57.14%.
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KAIST and Microsoft researchers say a map of named entities cut a search agent's input tokens from 206,500 to 88,100 per query on EnterpriseRAG-Bench. Whether that saving holds outside the benchmark depends on what the map costs to build and keep current.
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An amine-modified 2D metal-organic framework stores zinc first and protons second, reporting 368.7 mAh/g and 500-plus fast cycles. It is a material strategy, not a battery.
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Kwang-Hyun Cho's group decomposes logic models of gene regulation to enumerate every minimal transient intervention that reaches a target cell state. The evaluation reported so far runs inside those models.
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Fifteen years after KAIST reported that graphene oxide sheets align themselves in water, a Nature Materials commentary from Sang Ouk Kim's team traces the line from that phenomenon to fibers spun for heat.
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Do Hyun Ryu's group at Sungkyunkwan University published two asymmetric catalysis papers in Angewandte Chemie, one running two carbon-carbon bond formations off a single catalyst and one building tetrahydrofuran rings from achiral inputs.
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The WashU group reports in Nature that the structures activate in mice before distant lymph nodes get the signal, and that a gel of three immune proteins placed under the scalp boosted the antitumor response.
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Sang Yup Lee's group at KAIST rebuilt the bacterium's metabolism to assemble two aromatic PHA polymers from sugar. The best titre reached 52.8 grams per litre. The stronger of the two polymers was the weaker producer.
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Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix help design Korean university degrees that fund students for years and then hire them at ordinary entry-level pay. Applicants are queuing 13.44 and 9.14 deep for each seat.
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Deleting the enzyme that installs m6A left developing mouse neurons with stunted axons. A KAIST group has now mapped which RNAs carry the mark and named the proteins that read it and haul it outward.
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The neural value alignment work with Microsoft Research Asia decodes brain waves to tell an agent whether its goal or its method was wrong. The speed claim comes from simulations.
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Team REX pairs Samsung SDS with five hardware makers, three model developers and two data firms, and Samsung SDS says it went to a Chinese supplier for robotic hands because nobody else can match China.
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Electrochemical strain microscopy can read probe contact as ion movement, so a KAIST team etched trenches into ion-blocking silicon to prove it. Their fix is an argon-beam polishing step, not a new microscope.
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Researchers report in Nature that mouse skull bone marrow holds germinal-centre-like lymphoid structures that respond to CNS antigens and help drive anti-tumour immunity.
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KAIST and Samsung Electronics mixed aluminium, zinc, gallium, nickel and cobalt into one crystal so the catalyst would stop clumping in hydrogen fluoride, which is what actually ends an abatement bed's working life.
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KAIST's group built no new strain for this One Earth paper. It argues that feedstock quality, separation costs and the predictability of approval now set how fast microbial food scales, and the consumer half of the case arrives without a sample size.
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A PNAS paper claims the first identification of the circuits that make cell-state changes stick. The validation so far is recovering fate determinants that biology already knew.
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