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Oct. 2, 2024Perspectives Other

Pioneering the Future Through “Science that Connects”
Interview with President Makoto Gonokami: Creating a Scientific Research Structure to Break New Ground through Collaboration

Sep. 30, 2024Press Release Biology Medicine / Disease

Proteins in meat, milk, and other foods suppress gut tumors

Sep. 27, 2024Press Release Computing / Math

Powerful quantum error correction with a beautiful geometry

Sep. 27, 2024Research Highlight Physics / Astronomy

Smashing heavy ions together could produce the world’s strongest electric fields
Future particle-physics experiments may inadvertently generate fields stronger than the most intense lasers, according to calculations

Sep. 27, 2024Research Highlight Biology

Structural secrets of antiepileptic drugs uncovered
A cryo-electron microscopy study reveals how antiepileptic drugs are recognized by a key protein found in the synapses of neurons

Sep. 10, 2024Press Release Biology

How aging affects stem cells: A fly's tale

Sep. 5, 2024Research Highlight Physics / Astronomy

More magic in twisted layers of graphene
Adding an alternating magnetic field to two layers of graphene twisted at an angle can give rise to interesting effects

Sep. 5, 2024Research Highlight Chemistry

Making valuable molecules from the air
Simple and abundant starting materials can directly make industrially important alkyl amines by using titanium polyhydrides

Aug. 31, 2024Press Release Biology

Chromosome copy errors pinpointed in embryo development

Aug. 22, 2024Press Release Biology

Navigating the future: brain cells that plan where to go

Aug. 16, 2024Research Highlight Physics / Astronomy

Lifetime of triply charged thorium-229 isomer ion is suitable for nuclear clocks
Laser measurements on thorium ions clear the way for applications in ultraprecise nuclear timepieces

Aug. 15, 2024Perspectives Other

More than 100 years of collaboration
Two leading research institutes located far from each other, but formed in the early 20th century along similar lines, continue to make breakthroughs together.

Aug. 14, 2024Feature Highlight Biology Medicine / Disease

DNA study challenges thinking on ancestry of people in Japan
By studying the genomes of more than 3,000 people across Japan, researchers have shed light on the population’s complex ancestry. The work may also pave the way for future precision medicine.

Aug. 8, 2024Research Highlight Physics / Astronomy

The link between fuzzy images and quantum fields
Complex quantum calculations could be a whole lot faster by borrowing ideas from deep learning

Aug. 8, 2024Research Highlight Biology

Living plant fossils reveal their secrets
Study explores why plants that co-existed with dinosaurs are still here today despite not changing much

Aug. 7, 2024Press Release Biology Medicine / Disease

Dopamine treatment alleviates symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease

Aug. 1, 2024Research Highlight Physics / Astronomy

How a material distinguishes between polarized light that rotates in different directions
Why a material shows very different responses to left and right circularly polarized light has been revealed

Aug. 1, 2024Research Highlight Biology

Silencing the silencers in the hippocampus
By turning off neurons in one region of the hippocampus, researchers have shown the role they play in regulating oscillations

Jul. 25, 2024Research Highlight Biology

Chaotic dynamics in the brain may enable probabilistic thinking
Computational analysis has shed light on the brain’s mechanism for assessing probabilities

Jul. 25, 2024Research Highlight Biology

Deciphering the journey from stem cells to neurons
Continuous changes in gene expression in neural stem cells lie behind a discrete switch in cell type