Interviews & Opinions

2025.04.23

Understanding and manipulating cell functions: Aiming for next-generation therapies with fewer adverse effects

2025.04.08

Introducing formal semantics to natural language processing: Achieving trusted AI by demonstrating grounds for decision-making

2025.03.31

Using offshore observation to pioneer a new tsunami warning method - Interview with JAMSTEC Researcher Wang Yuchen

2025.03.19

Mathematical modelling at the junction of math, medicine, and life science: An interview with Professor Sungrim Seirin-Lee of Kyoto University

2025.02.18

Engineering green solutions for global agriculture: An interview with Associate Professor Tofael Ahamed of the University of Tsukuba

2025.02.12

Deciphering past environmental history from shells and bones of organisms — Aiming to establish a high-precision isotope analysis technology

2025.01.10

Studying the immune mechanisms of kuruma shrimp and investigation of the potential of Japanese aquaculture

2025.01.09

Interview with Toshiko Abe, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology — Clear distinction between education and research, the importance of advancing one's field of expertise and university salaries

2025.01.08

Proactively promoting the importance of innovation and Japan's strengths: Interview with Minoru Kiuchi, Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy

2024.12.16

Searching for the origin of life through "organic astrochemistry": Detecting microorganisms from small amounts of Martian particles

2024.11.27

Tackling the mystery of organ regeneration in plants: From elucidating mechanisms to improving tissue culture efficiency

2024.10.09

Developing artificial materials to control terahertz waves: Dreams of realizing ultraefficient communication devices

2024.09.10

Using data science to understand the present: Supporting global health policymaking

2024.08.23

From the long white cloud to the rising sun: Insights from a Kiwi scientist's experience in Japan

2024.07.29

Clarifying the mechanisms of the use of structural color in flowers: Aiming to realize photonics agriculture

2024.07.01

Aiming to clarify the "origin of life": Demonstration of self-reproducing RNA structures

2024.06.19

We must strengthen Arctic research: From local to global expansion — An interview with PD Hiroyuki Enomoto regarding the results of "ArCS II"

2024.06.03

Clarifying transport phenomena in fluids using scattered light and fluorescence — Contributing to manufacturing through microscopic-scale measurements

2024.04.30

Shedding light on the mechanism of stomatal opening and closing through the combination of biology and chemistry: The fusion of different disciplines sheds light on the potential of plants

2024.04.18

Observing electromagnetic fields and charges in materials at the atomic level — Creating new "eyes" with electron microscopes

2024.04.16

Combining AI and robots to observe disaster sites, civil engineering projects and bring benefits to society: An interview with Moonshot researcher Pang-jo Chun

2024.03.21

Predicting and controlling the weather with high powered simulations: An interview with Moonshot researcher Le Duc

2024.03.08

Outstanding Advanced Electron Microscopy Opens a New Path in the Field of Spintronics: An Interview with Dr. Yu, Team Leader at RIKEN