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2025.11.25

Sakaguchi and Kitagawa win Nobel Prize: Japan celebrates dual achievement in same year as two researchers who persevered through adversity call for support for basic research

2025.11.14

Vivid portrayal of ash fall damage in Tokyo Metropolitan Area from Mt. Fuji eruption: Cabinet Office releases CG video and calls for preparedness against "national crisis-level" disaster

2025.11.12

Drones take flight in Japan's disaster efforts

2025.11.06

Capturing cancer cell-derived exosomes from urine: Toward a healthy society through readily accessible risk screening

2025.11.06

Exploring next-generation materials through topological matter: Focusing on electronic properties to create useful products

2025.10.27

This summer was 2.36 degrees above average, updating the record for hottest summer — Temperature baseline up and natural disaster preparedness required

2025.10.24

Global Plastics Pollution Treaty: Standoff on production regulations unresolved, agreement postponed — Countries should resume negotiations early and achieve treaty formation

2025.10.17

Tohoku University and collaborators discover new seismic zone offshore from Hokkaido to the Kanto region using AI

2025.10.15

A Look Around Innovation, Part 23: Invisible light changes diagnostic methods — Hyperspectral Imaging Endoscope

2025.10.06

A Look Around Innovation, Part 22: Development of innovative circularly polarized light conversion film — Expectations for improved efficiency of photosynthesis and solar cells

2025.10.01

Morioka museum brings learning to life for visually impaired

2025.09.30

"Visualizing" mental wounds in children and youth: Aiming for a society with zero child abuse, depression, and suicide

2025.09.18

Let's think about the future of food in the city of culinary delight: Ingeniously crafted food displays including cultivated meat at the Expo

2025.09.18

"Even though it's weightless, the sash is heavy" — Onishi and Yui's simultaneous stay in space

2025.09.08

Boys, hold that "large stone" — Researcher who has been a fossil enthusiast since childhood discovers 18-million-year-old seagrass fossils in local Aichi

2025.09.08

[The trajectory of startups] Part 2: Kyoto Fusioneering — Taking on the challenge of international competition with manufacturing prowess in fusion energy development

2025.08.21

A strong center aiming for a "disaster prevention nation" - Overview of the Disaster Management Agency

2025.08.20

[The trajectory of startups] Part 1: Rules and technology for space debris removal and a system where funding circulates — Astroscale HD

2025.08.19

Reflecting on 80 years post-war and presenting challenges: White Paper on Science, Technology, and Innovation

2025.07.25

Learning about the energy of the future through gaming - Enjoying the light shining in the darkness at the Electrical Power Pavilion of the Osaka-Kansai Expo

2025.07.17

Japan building autonomous probe to explore Challenger Deep

2025.07.17

A Look Around Innovation, Part 20: Establishment of an alert system for Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense, the banana and plantain wilt pathogen, and mitigation strategy of the disease

2025.07.16

Shape-shifting AI robots to build "lunar city" by 2050: Tohoku University and partners unveil prototype