But the announcement made this week by Woo Suk Hwang, of Seoul National University in South Korea, and his colleagues, is serious.

ECONOMIST: An embryonic development

Researchers at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea, have developed a novel method of turning sound into electricity, and the technology could soon be used to charge our mobile phones with nothing more than the power of the human voice, reports the Telegraph.

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Work on the machine was carried out by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University in the US, and Seoul National University in South Korea.

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RNL-Bio began its cloning work in cooperation with Seoul National University in Korea, where Hwang Woo-suk, the controversial professor later found guilty of scientific fraud, produced the first cloned dog, Snuppy.

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