Korean Air to expand aerospace business

South Korea’s flag carrier seeks synergy with potential acquisition of Korea Aerospace Korean Air is speeding up efforts to nurture the aerospace business as its future growth engine, unveiling yesterday a plan to create a 1-million-square-metre industrial cluster in Busan by 2020. Adding to its existing 710,000-square-metre tech centre, established in 1976, the nation’s largest flag carrier plans to set up a new 230,000-square-metre centre and related facilities at another 150,000-square-metre site in the coming years. Korean Air is the only air carrier in the world that both produces and repairs aircraft. Continue reading

The buzz: Flying robots may get bee brains

3 hrs. John Roach Flying robots of the future may have the smarts of bees, a level of artificial intelligence with potential applications ranging from search and rescue missions to mechanical pollination of crops Continue reading

DNA strands create tiniest Smileys

Harvard University scientists on Wednesday said they had created Smileys, Chinese characters and card-game symbols at scales of billionths of a metre using strands of DNA. The feat marks the next step in “DNA origami” in which the molecule that provides the genetic code for life is used as a building block at the nanoscale, with potential outlets in engineering and medicine Continue reading