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ScienceIconic ‘Pillars of Creation’ captured by James Webb Space Telescope
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — The James Webb Space Telescope captured the iconic “Pillars of Creation,” hu...
October 28, 2022
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Yomiuri EditorialPromote cooperation among industry, government and academia
It is impractical to separate cutting-edge scientific and technological research into civilian and m...
October 28, 2022
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ScienceApollo, Gemini astronaut James McDivitt dies at 93
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — James McDivitt, a former U.S. astronaut who commanded some of NASA’s earliest...
October 28, 2022
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Technology
U.S. cryonics facility preserves bodies to revive later
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Reuters) — Time and death are “on pause” for some people in Scottsdale, Ariz. In...
October 28, 2022
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BaseballYoshida HRs help Buffaloes even Series
OSAKA — The Orix Buffaloes threw their weight around at the end of a seesaw game to even the Japan S...
October 28, 2022
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Science
Archaeologists in Peru unearth 8 colonial-era mummies
LIMA (Reuters) — Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed eight centuries-old mummies at a site in the ...
October 28, 2022
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Defense & SecurityGovt eyes U.S. Tomahawk missiles to bolster defense
The Japanese government has approached the United States about purchasing Tomahawk cruise missiles a...
October 28, 2022
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Other SportsKodaira to begin post-competition life as lecturer at alma mater
Recently retired speed skating star Nao Kodaira will begin the post-competition stage of her life as...
October 28, 2022
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Crime & CourtsJailed Kudo-kai yakuza member arrested over 2013 murder of gyoza chain president
The Kyoto Prefectural Police on Friday arrested Yukio Tanaka, 55, a member of the Kudo-kai, a yakuza...
October 28, 2022
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Washington PostInside the Democrats’ elaborate attempt to woo TikTok influencers
President Biden spent more than an hour this week at the White House with eight TikTok stars with a ...
October 28, 2022
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Travel SpotsYokohama: Lantern festival lights up Chinatown
The Chinese New Year Lanterns festival, an event that extravagantly illuminates Yokohama’s Chinatown...
October 28, 2022
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EnvironmentLowly wax worm’s saliva may boost fight against plastic pollution
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Two substances in the saliva of wax worms — moth larvae that eat wax made by ...
October 28, 2022
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General NewsChildren of religious parents in Japan call for legal reforms to protect kids
Three women whose parents have ties with the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, amon...
October 28, 2022
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Washington PostFor the first time in 6,000 years, a bison is born in the wild in the U.K.
Tom Gibbs was getting worried. He was deep in the remote woodland of South East England, anxiously s...
October 28, 2022
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ScienceMore penguins dying from avian flu at Cape Town colony
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) — More penguins have died from avian flu at the colony at Cape Town’s Boulders b...
October 28, 2022