Energy & Environment

2021.09.06

The Earth's core contains large amounts of hydrogen, held 50 times more water in the past than in the oceans of today, research group including the University of Tokyo proves

2021.08.26

Building new relationships between people and technology

2021.08.24

Development of immunostimulants from menthol for safe and secure crop cultivation

2021.08.24

Toward preventing the spread of COVID-19 infection
Heat trace visualization of locations touched by people: development of a new system by NTT

2021.08.23

Revealing the true extent of marine plastics
Towards evidence-based policy making

2021.08.23

Active bioproduction in "marine deserts"
Maintaining an enriched environment through efficient regenerative circulation of phosphorus

2021.08.10

Interaction between large earthquakes and 'slow slip' clarified through observations by an international group, including Kyoto University

2021.08.04

The key to suppressing CO2 release:
The higher the number of fungi, the lower the rate of wood decomposition

2021.08.04

Electronic waste recycling system established by NEDO and ARBIZ Corporation

2021.08.04

Regional innovation based on micro-needs:
Latent problems hidden in local communities

2021.07.29

Pesticide spraying using agricultural drones shown to be more efficient than existing technologies.

2021.07.29

Location of a huge earthquake of Magnitude 9 or above discovered by Tohoku University

2021.07.28

Industry-academia-government collaboration in Yamanashi Prefecture aiming to create ‘Yamanashi Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Valley’

2021.07.13

A comparison with direct wind at "small amplitudes": Associate Professor Okamoto’s group at the Kyushu University, performed an experiment with students

2021.07.13

Self-organized pattern of electrode reactions; Observations in actual Li-ion batteries during charging

2021.07.12

Genomic data expands possibilities for cereal production

2021.06.28

Isotope analysis reveals that the spread of livestock farming to the world involved diverse farming techniques from its earliest period

2021.06.22

Literature survey for geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste began in two municipalities in Hokkaido

2021.06.15

Sea Robot Successfully Maps Underside of Sea Ice
Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo and National Institute of Polar Research

2021.06.03

NEDO and three collaborators exceed efficiency targets in China energy scheme using energy management system and energy-saving equipment

2021.06.01

Kitami Institute of Technology, National Institute of Polar Research and others on the trail of anomalous high temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula
Marine heatwaves on the Tasman Sea push low-pressure systems 1000km south

2021.06.01

High Efficiency CO2 Reduction
New Catalyst Developed by Kanazawa University and Others
Graphene and Tin Surface Action

2021.05.31

Report of the observations and activities of the 61st Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition wintering party and 62nd summer party
Largest ozone hole in five years confirmed

2021.05.24

Synthesizing High Density Methane from Atmospheric CO2
New technology developed by AIST

2021.05.20

High Efficiency 17MW Cogeneration System
38% Energy Conservation with Stable Electricity and Heat Supply
Test Operation Begun in Uzbekistan for NEDO Project

2021.05.17

The 2021 MIDORI Academic Prize
Awarded to Kazuhiko Takeuchi in the area of Landscape Ecology and Satoshi Tabata in the area of Molecular Biology

2021.05.12

Detecting COVID-19 in Sewage
New PCR Testing Service Offered by Shimadzu Subsidiary

2021.05.10

Plant proteins that efficiently absorb cesium has been identified for the first time in the world by Iwate University, Shimane University and The University of Tokyo. Expected to pave the pathway to use phytoremediation technique to decontaminate soil.

2021.04.27

Larger Tokyo salamanders may be due to global warming—Tokyo Metropolitan University

2021.04.21

Air Pollution Causes Increased Covid-19 Severity Research group at Kyoto University unravels part of the mechanism PM2.5 enhances the cell infection route for SARS-CoV-2

2021.04.19

Bicomponent Filament Yarn Gentle for the Environment Made from Plant-based Nanofiber and Silk—New material created at Tohoku University by feeding filament to silkworms

2021.04.13

System to Optimize Voltage and Reactive Power to be Adopted for the Thailand Electrical Grid Optimized operations to reduce greenhouse gasses—testing project begun by NEDO and Hitachi

2021.04.12

NEDO Prepares Solar Power Development Strategy

2021.04.07

Waste pork bones transformed into absorbent for hazardous metals—Holds promise as a use for “7.5 billion tons/year” in waste

2021.04.01

The mystery of our origins: the search continues as new species of archaeon discovered (Special: White Paper on Science and Technology 2020)

2021.04.01

Learning from Nature to Build the Future—the Challenge of Artificial Photosynthesis (Special: White Paper on Science and Technology 2020)

2021.04.01

The Rains of Bounty in the Triassic Period that Opened the Way for Dinosaurs and Humanity: Were Volcanoes the Cause?

2021.04.01

Hokkaido University Study Finds That Fish Absorb More Microplastics from Their Food Than Directly

2021.04.01

10 years on from 3/11—The challenge to restore Natori River hand in hand with fishermen