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- 2020.10.14 Research Results Life & Health Environment & Sustainability
- Newly discovered beetles get a lift from termites
- Scarab beetles found in Myanmar first of the Termitotrox genus reported to be carried by host termites
- 2020.10.06 Research Results Life & Health
- Sugar more than just sweet to the tongue
- Identification of nerve fibers responding specifically to simple sugars helps explain why we can distinguish between artificial sweeteners and the real stuff
- 2020.10.01 Research Results Physics & Chemistry Environment & Sustainability
- Particulate plutonium released from the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns
- 2020.09.30 Research Results Environment & Sustainability
- Beech tree growth recovered as air pollution levels fell
- Reduction in inflow of air pollution from China found to be associated with changes in tree growth on Mt. Tateyama
- 2020.09.18 Research Results Life & Health
- Nose’s response to odors more than just a simple sum of parts
- Recording of olfactory sensory neurons in mice shows suppression or enhancement of response when odors are mixed
- 2020.09.14 Research Results Life & Health
- An innovative technology to simultaneously detect multiple epigenetic information in single specimens
- 2020.09.08 Research Results Life & Health
- Potential targets found for diagnosing the onset of breast cancer
- Breast cancer cells highly produced multiple medium-chain unsaturated fatty acids, which could behave as precursors for specific odorants in cancer patients’ breath
- 2020.09.04 Research Results Life & Health Physics & Chemistry
- Next-generation test for detecting bacterial endotoxin
- New advances could help reduce the use of endangered horseshoe crabs for detecting lipopolysaccharide
- 2020.09.03 Research Results Physics & Chemistry Materials Technology
- Continuous and stable lasing achieved from low-cost perovskites at room temperature
- Suppression of long-lived energetic states called triplet excitons shown to be key for preventing the “lasing death” that has been limiting long operation
- 2020.09.02 Research Results Physics & Chemistry Environment & Sustainability
- Better evaluating bankability of large-scale offshore wind farms
- New wind turbine wake model takes into account effects of wind speed loss region
- 2020.08.31 Research Results Life & Health
- Incidence of myopic maculopathy much higher among Japanese compared with other Asian people
- Study gives new insight into the leading cause of irreversible visual impairment
- 2020.08.14 Research Results Physics & Chemistry Environment & Sustainability
- Mars subsurface explored using microtremors
- Analysis of weak vibrations shown to be promising for space resource exploration
- 2020.08.07 Research Results Environment & Sustainability
- Unexpected shift in air pollution explained for regions downwind of China
- New research reveals why nitrogen-containing pollutants are increasing downwind despite being reduced at the source
- 2020.08.04 Research Results Life & Health
- Novel genetic tools reveal the full picture of immune cells in the central nervous system
- New tools will facilitate research into microglia and diseases of the central nervous system
- 2020.07.31 Research Results Life & Health
- Stay or leave? A tale of two virus strategies revealed by math
- Mathematical modeling of behavior observed for two strains of hepatitis C quantifies their preference to either multiply or spread
- 2020.07.28 Research Results Life & Health Environment & Sustainability
- Coastal beetles may be spanning oceans just by floating themselves across
- Study shows that some insects can survive floating on sea water for several weeks
- 2020.07.21 Research Results Life & Health
- Three new species of mud dragons found in submarine cave in Okinawa, Japan
- Discovery of the kinorhynchs reveals more of the hidden—but diverse—world of sand-dwelling microscopic animals
- 2020.07.14 Research Results Art & Design
- Design of insect-inspired fans offers wide-ranging applications
- New design method for highly compact deployable structures is based on the sophisticated folding of earwig wings
- 2020.06.29 Research Results Physics & Chemistry Materials
- Unique molecular sponges for liquid separation
- Researchers separate molecular mixtures by selectively absorbing larger molecules over smaller ones into nanoscale pores using a process driven by depletion force
- 2020.06.19 Research Results Life & Health
- Memory impairment in mice reduced by soy derivate that can enter the brain intact
- Ingestion of the protein fragment improved working and long-term memory in mice treated to simulate Alzheimer’s disease