Science
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2 Newly Recruited Japanese Certified as Astronauts
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Two Japanese selected in the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s first publ...
October 23, 2024
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Parkinson’s Patients to Receive Gut Bacteria Transplants, in Clinical 1st for Japan
The gut bacteria of healthy people are set to be transplanted into the large intestines of people...
October 21, 2024
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Electric Oranges? Japan’s Researchers Test Device to Generate Power from Mikan Mandarin Fields
YAWATAHAMA, Ehime — Shikoku Electric Power Co. and researchers from the Tokyo University of Agric...
October 18, 2024
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Oldest-known Birds of Prey Lived alongside T. Rex in North America
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — In western North America during the twilight of the dinosaur age, the unqu...
October 17, 2024
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David Baker, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper Win 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Update1)
STOCKHOLM, Oct 9 (Reuters) - U.S. Scientists David Baker and John Jumper and Britain's Demis Hass...
October 9, 2024
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Danish Archaeologists Unearth 50 Well-preserved Viking Skeletons
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) — The excavation of a large Viking-era burial site in Denmark has unearthed ...
October 9, 2024
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CERN to End Cooperation with Russian Scientists
ZURICH (Reuters) — The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will end cooperation wit...
October 9, 2024
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NASA Switches Off Instrument on Voyager 2
NEW YORK (AP) — To save power, NASA has switched off another scientific instrument on its long-ru...
October 9, 2024
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Xenotransplantation Needed in Japan, Harvard Professor Says; Patients’ Quality of Life Higher Compared to Dialysis
Tatsuo Kawai, a professor at Harvard University, has called for the need to stimulate discussions...
October 8, 2024
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‘Virus Hunters’ Track Threats to Head off Next Pandemic
BANGKOK (AFP-Jiji) — A global network of doctors and laboratories is working to pinpoint emerging...
October 3, 2024
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Study Shows How a Woman’s Brain Reorganizes during Pregnancy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Pregnancy triggers vast changes in a woman’s body — hormonal, cardiovascul...
September 26, 2024
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Ariane 6 Set for New Launch before Year’s End
PARIS (Reuters) — Space launch provider Arianespace on Sept. 16 reaffirmed plans to stage the sec...
September 26, 2024
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Yamagata Univ. Newly Identifies 303 Nazca Lines
YAMAGATA (Jiji Press) — Yamagata University said Tuesday that it has newly identified 303 Nazca L...
September 26, 2024
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Endangered Sea Corals Moved from South Florida to the Texas Gulf Coast for Research, Restoration
DANIA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have moved about 300 endangered sea corals from South Florida...
September 25, 2024
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Climate Change Will Escalate Child Health Crisis Due to Malnutrition, Says Gates
LONDON (Reuters) — Malnutrition is the world’s worst child health crisis, and climate change will...
September 25, 2024
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