Mar 23, 2026 Gyeonghyun Cho www.health.harvard.edu A growing number of experts say the connection between sleep and mental wellbeing is not simple. It works both ways. Poor sleep can make mental health worse, and mental health struggles can make it harder to sleep. Dr. Lauren Waterman, a psychiatrist who focuses on insomnia, says it is important to understand the difference between sleep deprivation and insomnia. Sleep deprivation usually happens because of outside factors, l

Mar 16, 2026 Yul So www.dongascience.com Researchers in South Korea have identified a new natural compound from microorganisms living in the soil of Dokdo that may help reduce inflammation in the brain. The compound, named Dokdothiocin, was discovered by scientists from the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology. Dokdothiocin has a distinctive molecular structure in which 29 atoms form a ring-shaped arrangeme

Mar 9, 2026 Yul So www.labonline.com.au Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed a wireless wearable device that can measure blood flow in real time simply by attaching a small electronic patch to the skin. The system combines multilayer thermal sensing with artificial intelligence to achieve medical level accuracy without invasive procedures. The research team, led by Professor Kwon Kyungha from the Department of Electrical Enginee

Mar 7, 2026 Seoyoung kang www.mk.co.kr Liver cancer is a malignant tumor* that develops in liver cells. It often has no symptoms in its early stages, and by the time signs such as pain in the upper right abdomen, a lump, or fatigue appear, the disease is often already advanced. Recently, Korean researchers discovered why liver cancer associated with obesity or metabolic problems progresses more quickly and doesn’t respond to cancer drugs. Researchers at the Ulsan National Ins

Mar 7, 2026 Gyeonghyun Cho www.cedars-sinai.org A recent study has offered new clues about why some people continue to experience taste loss long after recovering from COVID-19. While many patients regain their sense of taste within a few weeks of infection, others report persistent taste problems that last for months or even years. This ongoing condition is often linked to what is known as long COVID. In the study, published in the journal Chemical Senses, researchers exami

Feb 24, 2026 Seoyoung Kang www.bloomberg.com The race to the Moon is back. SpaceX and Blue Origin are putting their Mars and Space dreams on hold. Instead, they are working hard to meet a 2028 deadline set by the U.S. government. Both companies are now using all their resources to build lunar landers. The battle between Musk and Bezos has moved from the stars to the Moon’s surface. Faced with the Trump administration's 2028 moon landing deadline, NASA partners SpaceX and Blue

Feb 24, 2026 Seoyoung Kang www.sciencealert.com Researchers at Stanford University in the United States have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model called SleepFM that can predict future disease risks using data from just one night of sleep testing. The findings were published in the international medical journal Nature Medicine in January 2026. SleepFM analyzes brain waves, heart rate, breathing patterns, and muscle movements recorded during sleep to estimate the ri

Jan 25, 2026 Yul So www.theatlantic.com The year 2026 is expected to become a major turning point in the history of space exploration. For the first time in more than 50 years, humans will fly around the Moon. Spacecraft will enter Mercury’s orbit, collect samples from a moon of Mars, and closely study asteroids, the Sun, and space weather. Government agencies and private companies will undertake ambitious missions simultaneously, marking what many scientists call a new golde

Jan 25, 2025 Gyeonghyun Cho dukeghic.org When Covid19 broke out in 2020, most people visited the hospital to have a shot of Covid19 vaccine to prevent the spread of the virus. However, vaccine exemption rates for school-required childhood immunization have increased across much of the United States after Covid pandemic, mainly due to nonmedical exemptions based on personal religious beliefs. Most experts assume that misinformation, political debates, and vaccine hesitancy con

Jan 25, 2026 Seoyoung Kang www.nature.com Nuclear fusion is often described as a future energy source that could help solve global energy problems. Recently, a research team in China reported an important result in this field. According to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), an experimental fusion reactor called EAST was able to reach conditions that scientists had previously struggled to achieve. The most important part of this experiment was keeping plasma stable at a ve