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More Evidence Suggests Saturn’s Enceladus Could Support Life
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A fresh look at data collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has uncovered ...
October 17, 2025
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Comet Lemmon Making Closest Approach to Earth, To Be Seen between Oct. 23 and Nov. 2
Comet Lemmon, discovered in January, is approaching Earth, giving skywatchers the rare opportunit...
October 17, 2025
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Moon’s Farside Interior May Be Cooler Than Nearside
NASA / JPL-Caltech / Handout via ReutersThe moon’s nearside, left, and farside, right, put together ...
October 17, 2025
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Tracing ‘Green Sahara’ in Chad’s Northern Desert
N’DJAMENA (AFP-Jiji) — A cloud of dust escapes from an excavation site in the sand of Chad’s arid...
October 17, 2025
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Dolphin-like Fossil Found in Peru Dates Back Millions of Years
LIMA (Reuters) — Paleontologists in Peru unveiled last month the fossilized skeleton of an ancien...
October 15, 2025
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Swedish Embassy Hosts Tokyo Reception to Honor This Year’s Japanese Nobel Laureates
The two Japanese winners of this year’s Nobel prizes attended a reception hosted by the Swedish E...
October 14, 2025
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Scientists Create Human Eggs Using Skin Cells
Human skin cells may one day be used to create functional human eggs in a step toward helping wom...
October 10, 2025
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Australian Scientists Grapple with ‘Despicable’ Butterfly Heist
SYDNEY (AFP-Jiji) — Almost eight decades after Colin Wyatt stole and then vandalized thousands of...
October 10, 2025
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Amber from Ecuador Reveals Insects from the Age of Dinosaurs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Amber found in the Amazon forest region of Ecuador containing a trove of w...
October 9, 2025
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Nobel Laureate Kitagawa Says ‘Mountain of Work’ Still Left, After Crowd Greets His Arrival at University
KYOTO — Susumu Kitagawa, a distinguished professor at Kyoto University, was welcomed by about 100...
October 9, 2025
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MOFs Starting to See Real-World Use, Years after Paper by Nobel Prize Winner
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are starting to see real-world use both in Japan and aboard, than...
October 9, 2025
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Innovative Ideas ‘Get Bashed,’ Says Kitagawa; Nobel Laureate Once Faced Intense Criticism for Work That Eventually Earned Him the Prize
A watershed moment in Susumu Kitagawa’s research, which recently culminated in the Kyoto Universi...
October 9, 2025
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Kitagawa Was ‘Impertinent’ as a University Student; Former Colleagues Recount Experiences with the New Nobel Prize Winner
Newly chosen Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa, 74, a distinguished professor at ...
October 9, 2025
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Susumu Kitagawa Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Joins List of Japanese Winners That Includes Nihon Hidankyo (Update 1)
Kyoto University Prof. Susumu Kitagawa along with Richard Robson, affiliated with the University ...
October 8, 2025
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‘Man of Belief’: Japanese Nobel Prize Winner Sakaguchi Pursues Research Despite Skepticism from Peers
“A man of belief.”
This is how many of his fellow researchers describe Shimon Sakaguchi, ...
October 8, 2025
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