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Understanding the mechanisms of the human brain by building and connecting tissues――Complex activity of brain organoids interconnected via axons――

Atoms passing through walls: Quantum tunneling of hydrogen within palladium crystal

Artificial intelligence theory could be the key to how collective cell intelligence works

Switching it up: the secret survival strategy to life as revealed by mathematics

Avoiding static land surface models: improvements in simulating water–energy–vegetation dynamics

Is Flooding Under Climate Change More Predictable Than We Thought?

UAV-Based Deep-Sea Observation Technology Brings Us Closer to Unraveling the Mechanisms of Massive Earthquakes

The top hot spots in Tokyo: revealing the impact of climate change through data fusion

Thermometers in the DONET seafloor cable seismic observation network detect synchronous ocean waves over more than 100 km

Theoretically Impossible? Exploring the Mystery of Quasicrystals――Uncovering the Mechanism Behind the Formation of Quasicrystals, which Possess a Unique Order――

Advancing earthquake prediction with an unmanned aerial vehicle

The Disaster Management Field Guide, Providing Guidance at the Frontlines of Disasters―― A model for promoting disaster management amid complex social and emotional challenges――

What about tritiated water release from Fukushima? Ocean model simulations provide an objective scientific knowledge on the long-term tritium distribution

A small reaction space has a big impact on polymer chemistry

Tiny but mighty: sophisticated next-gen transistors hold great promise

Creating ice layer by layer: the secret mechanisms of ice formation revealed

A recipe for success: beefing up the taste of cultured meat with amino acids

In vitro cancer model reveals how tumor cells access the bloodstream

Mask users can now breathe easy on two counts

Visualizing the Present and Future Using the Vast Amount of Data in Digital Space

Aiming to Address Energy Challenges through the Development of Catalysts that Minimize Reliance on Precious Metals――Developing Catalysts that Require Minimal Volumes of Precious Metals or None at All――

Creating New Aquaculture Technologies That Lead Us Into the Future――How Can We Revitalize Marine Industries Amid Advancing Climate Change?――

A cool fix for hot chips: advanced thermal management technology for electronic devices

Physics meets art: a new twist on interference patterns

Circulating Metals for Economic Growth While Protecting the Environment――Metal Recycling Technologies to Support Manufacturing――

Unveiling the Hidden World of Nano-Materials--Exploring the true nature of atomic clusters comprised of several up to a few dozen atoms--

The math behind social distancing: the rules that influence epidemic behavior

Expanding the potential of the quantum bits that underpin quantum computing--Paving the way for a future in which information flows between electrons and light--

Moving in Sync, Slowly, in Glassy Liquids

Japanese experts design a world-class campus for IIT Hyderabad, one of India’s premier universities

Pinpointing hydrogen isotopes in titanium hydride nanofilms

Painless paper patch test for glucose levels uses microneedles

Feeling the heat: a new approach to controlling heat flow in crystals

A rare form of ice at the center of a cool new discovery about how water droplets freeze

Making computers faster at their core -- Pursuing the extreme end of system software to pioneer new possibilities for computers

A Genetic Algorithm for Phononic Crystals

Innovative System Enhances Biological-Artificial Interactions in Neurological Research

Cheap yet ultrapure titanium metal might enable widespread use in industry

Newly discovered superconductivity in quasicrystals, a third class of solids -- To identify the unknown properties hidden in solid-state materials

Finding Where the Grass is Greener

Beat the Heat with Radiative Cooling

Connecting lab-grown brain cells provides insight into how our own brains work

Physics-based predictive tool will speed up battery and superconductor research

PENTA : Pursuing a Nomadic Lifestyle

Smart Bridge between Tokyo and Arizona: A Collaborative Journey in Sustainable Urban Mobility

Advancement in transmitting quantum information for high-speed information processing

Breakthrough in atomic-scale exploration

Sensing the unseen world

A Tiny Tattoo for a Tabby

Communing with Nothingness

‘Hot’ new form of microscopy examines materials using evanescent waves

Bringing out the color in zinc

From Digital Game AI to Smart City

Democratizing AI Research: AICOM Project for Engaging Diverse Participants Through Gamified Data Collection

Replace a Paper sensor sheet with new biodegradable nanofibers’ polymer membrane

‘Seeing’ with High-speed Vision

‘Seeing Through’ Aging Infrastructure

In Search of the Ideal Glass

Ions Share Their Hydration Secrets for Industrial Design and Manufacturing

Much Ado about Nothing: Insights into Designing Advanced Stimuli-Responsive Materials

New method expertly evaluates protein folding stability on a large scale

Development of a high-resolution method for climate model simulation using machine learning

New method takes the uncertainty out of oxide semiconductor layering

A Sticky Colloidal Sciences Question Now Solved

Machine Learning Lets Researchers See Beyond the Spectrum

Mastering Light Manipulation through Nanomaterials

Developing Soft Electronics

Renewing COVID Masks

Mapping Floods of the Future Reveals Communities at Risk due to Climate Change

Heat Highway

Two Tasks Are Better Than One: Learning If and How Much It’s Raining Improves Deep Models

Like Flipping the Switch

Counter-Rotating Fates

A Rough Start Can Lead to a Strong Bond

Simulations are Starting to Gel

Exploring the deep: drones offer new ways to monitor sea floor

Molecular neural network with potential application in medical diagnostics

Past the Breaking Point

Making electric vehicles green energy consumers

Hydrogen: energy vital for net zero

Upgrading your Computer to Quantum

Radical new treatment system lights up cancer therapy

Nerves on the spot: Sensory Neurons in Human Skin Play Key Role in Pigmentation

Feeling Out of Equilibrium in a Dual Geometric World: A novel theory for nonlinear dissipasive phenomena

The Thermodynamics of Life taking Shape

Concrete Evidence: Simple Method to Improve the Sustainability of Construction

New Study Reveals Importance of Liquid Structural Ordering in Crystallization

Learning to Fight Infection

New antibody detection method for coronavirus that does not require a blood sample

Dissolving the Problem: Organic Vapor Induces Dissolution of Molecular Salts

Remote sensing helps track carbon storage in mangroves

Wildlife–human conflicts could shift with climate change

Building Up New Data-Storage Memory

Glasses Shake Things Up

Machine learning produces more accurate rainfall predictions

Feel the Attraction of Zwitterionic Janus Particles

Elastic fields stretch the understanding of chiral molecular crystals

Unlocking nanoworld mysteries

Looking beyond 6G

Run (and Tumble) to Dinner

Red snow phenomena are a balancing act

Benefiting from Ancestral Knowledge

A single molecule makes a big splash in the understanding of the two types of water

Some polycrystal grain boundaries feel the heat more than others

Glass as Stable as Crystal : Homogeneity Leads to Stability

Tokyo researchers take a look beneath the skin of surfactant onions

Drones show promise in speeding up communication with underwater robots for ocean surveys

AI predicts extensive material properties to break down a previously insurmountable wall

Measles: activation of two different innate immune responses spotted

A model of ingenuity

The "alchemy" of sustainability

Better Weather Forecasting Through Satellite Isotope Data Assimilation

Cracking the Code of Crack Propagation in Rubberlike Materials

Bonding’s next top model – Projecting bond properties with machine learning

Computer-assisted Biology: Decoding Noisy Data to Predict Cell Growth

Want New Advanced Materials? There's a Phase Transition for That

Earlier flood forecasting could help avoid disaster in Japan

Particles with ‘eyes’ allow a closer look at rotational dynamics

Closer hardware systems bring the future of artificial intelligence into view

Food Scraps Get a Bold New Life

Domino-like crystallization of glass

Simple Chemistry will Enhance the Sustainability of Concrete Production

Race against time

Replacing what was lost: A novel cell therapy for type I diabetes mellitus

Flood risk uncertainties assessed at the global scale

Captivated by a tiny world

E. Coli Calculus: Bacteria Find the Derivative Optimally

Learning to Help the Adaptive Immune System

Meeting the meat needs of the future

Discovery of a new law of phase separation

Listening to the Call of the Wild: Tracking Deer Movements Using Sound

A Shock to the PPE System

A Theory as Clear as Glass

Ultrasensitive transistor for herbicide detection in water

Looking Inside the Glass

Laser-Powered Nanomotors Chart Their Own Course

Tokyo’s Voluntary Standstill May Have Stopped COVID-19 in its Tracks

Tetrahedra May Explain Water ‘s Uniqueness

Stress-free Gel

Surface waves can help nanostructured devices keep their cool

A Clearer View of What Makes Glass Rigid

Having a Ball: Crystallization in a Sphere

0.5°C of additional warming has a huge effect on global aridity

Painless paper patch test for glucose levels uses microneedles

Crystal Wars

Diabetic Mice Improve With Retrievable Millimeter-thick Cell-laden Hydrogel Fiber

Circular Reasoning: Spiraling Circuits for More Efficient AI

Get Excited by Neural Networks

The Nature of Glass-Forming Liquids is More Clear

Artificial pieces of brain use light to communicate with real neurons

Red Light for Stress

Bubbles go with the Flow

AI Finds 2D Materials in the Blink of an Eye

But what about flow? The effect of hydrodynamics on liquid–liquid transitions

"Wood" you like to recycle concrete?

Water, water everywhere – and it’s weirder than you think

Wisdom of the Crowd? Building Better Forecasts from Suboptimal Predictors

Slow-motion interplate slip detected in the Nankai Trough near Japan

Gazing into Crystal Balls to Advance Understanding of Crystal Formation

A New View for Glasses

Flood Alert! Researchers devise powerful new flood monitoring system for Japan

A New Spin on Life’s Origin?

Keeping Cool with Quantum Wells

Better Chemistry Through Tiny Antennae

Jam-packed: a novel microscopic approach to amorphous solids

Colloidal gel properties under the microscope

Remaining switched on to silicon-based electronics

Balancing the beam: thermomechanical micromachine detects terahertz radiation

Growing a Cerebral Tract in a Microscale Brain Model

China, India Economic Development Key to Achieving MDG for Safe Drinking Water

A Universal Description of Non-equilibrium Colloid Phase Separation

Half a degree more warming may cause dramatic differences on drought-flood compound risks

Machine Learning Reveals Rapid Material Classification

A fascinating phase transition: from one liquid state to another

What causes that peak? Answering a long-standing question for covalent liquids

AI Supporting the Analysis of the Newest Fashion Trends - Mix and match outfits of major brands, searchable by color and items -

"Butterfly-Shaped" Palladium Subnano Cluster Built in 3-D

Blood Runs Deep: Lab Blood Vessel Model Sheds Light on Angiogenesis

Modeling crystal behavior: Towards answers in self-organization

Snapshots of the Future: Tool Learns to Predict User's Gaze in Headcam Footage

Interpretation of material spectra can be data-driven using machine learning

Fast vs Slow Water: Explaining the Fragile-to-Strong Transition

Terahertz Spectroscopy Enters the Single-Molecule Regime

Why Gold–Palladium Alloys Are Better than Palladium for Hydrogen Storage

Artificial Intelligence Accurately Predicts Distribution of Radioactive Fallout

Investigation of collapse accident of Myaungmya bridge and safety survey of similar type bridges in Myanmar

Cometh the cyborg: improved integration of living muscles into robots

Glass-Forming Ability: Fundamental Understanding Leading to Smart Design

Building a Brain, Cell by Cell: Researchers Make a Mini Neuron Network (of Two)

Polarized Light: A Simple Route to Highly Chiral Materials

Robot Developed for Automated Assembly of Designer Nanomaterials

Tetrahedrality Is Key to the Uniqueness of Water

Is the Glass Transition Driven by Thermodynamics?

Blood vessel-on-a-chips show anti-cancer drug effects in human cells

Vitamin C in the body can be tracked by fluorescence

To jump or not to jump: Impact of renewables and trading on power grid frequency fluctuations

Shape separates substance

Scientists win a gold metal for liquid behavior

Illuminated: The mechanism behind shear thinning in supercooled liquids

Hot Vibrating Gases Under the Electron Spotlight

Windows of Opportunity: Solar Cell with Improved Transparency

3D axon assemblies pave the way for drug discovery

Bringing the atomic world into full color

How does crystal gel form?--- Origin of cold rain

Mystery of avalanche-like change in glass solved?

Fabrication of full color LEDs on metal foils for flexible display

Highly efficient expansion of human iPS cells by using cell-fiber technology

Heat focusing in solid

How large is global transpiration? Quantification of vegetation’s contribution on global hydrological cycle

Crystal formation processes at two colloid concentrations observed by three-dimensional confocal microscopy.

Comparison of the dynamics of liquid-liquid transition between with and without rubbing treatment.

Microvasculature on a chip for non-invasive live imaging of angiogenesis

Semi-transparent film exhibits different colors on the front and back sides

Novel bifunctional catalysts for electrochemical oxygen reactions

Artificial intelligence generated by machine learning predicts interface structure-22 year calculation speeds up to 3 hour-

Single-component substance has 2 liquid states

Flexible Pressure Sensor Sheet Integrating Artificial Neurons Using Organic Floating-Gate PFET for Bedsore Prevention

Ms.Violeta Bulc, European Commissioner for Mobility and Transport, visits Advanced Mobility Research Center (ITS Center)

A characteristic feature found in disordered amorphous materials

Study shows coexistence of four phases of single-component substance

Where is a great spot for fireworks displays?―Visibility evaluation model considering digital data of buildings―

Making artificial cells like soap bubbles!! Artificial cell membranes for researching asymmetric cell membranes

Simple process to fabricate separable bundled gel fibers

A practical approach to the survey of hydrothermal deposits using precise measurement technology and its validation at the Higashi Aogashima Caldera off the Izu Islands

100-fold increase in speed of determining interface structure -Successful application of big data methodology-

Levitation technique makes novel hard oxide glass with very high elastic modulus