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In his day-to-day life, Dr. Mark MacLachlan is a professor of chemistry researching something called ‘supramolecular materials’ (don’t ask) and dean of science at the University of British Columbia. His days are filled with unpronounceable chemicals and long meetings.

For the average reader, relaxing after work might involve scrolling through Instagram, reading a book, watching some junk television, say.

Dean MacLachlan creates crosswords. For The New York Times, LA Times, and The Wall Street Journal, no less. And no, he doesn’t watch Love Island.

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced that the Metaverse Advisory Group was established at the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 meeting in London, Great Britain this June following a proposal of Korea. The group is responsible for overseeing international standardization in the field of Metaverse communications and is chaired by principal researcher Hyun Wook.

Maria Olds, a doctoral student at The University of Texas at Arlington, had her research on chromatography and blood alcohol recently featured in LCGC International, an internationally recognized magazine.

The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM, President Seog-Hyeon Ryu), under the National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST), will host the 2025 Global Forum on Mechanical Engineering on September 26 (Friday) at the National Assembly Library Auditorium in Seoul. The forum is co-organized with National Assembly members Seung-Rae Cho and Jung-A Hwang of the Democratic Party of Korea, and Hyung-Doo Choi and Chung-Kwon Park of the People Power Party.

Researchers at AIMR and NUS have demonstrated field-free, energy-efficient switching of perpendicular magnetization using magnon torques in a WTe₂/NiO/CoFeB heterostructure. By exploiting crystal symmetry and spin canting, they achieved low-current operation with minimal impact of Joule heating—offering a promising path toward scalable, low-power spintronic memory devices based on magnon transport.