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Surface deformation cause by magma rising within the crust may in turn have prevented a volcanic eruption in Saudi Arabia.

Researchers at Tohoku University and NEC Corporation have discovered a new technique for compressing the computations of encryption and decryption operations known as Galois field arithmetic operations.

A team from Hokkaido University and Ehime University has discovered that Hawaiian drosophilids (fruit flies) had plural ancestors that hailed from continents, refuting the “single Hawaiian origin” hypothesis.

Male Japanese termites form homosexual couples when no females are around -- and when the chance arises, they take over a heterosexual couple's nest and kill the male so that one of them can mate with the now spouseless female. The study supports a theory that homosexual couplings in invertebrates have evolutionary advantages.

Researchers from Hokkaido University have discovered familial differences in the earliest vocal babblings of juvenile songbirds, suggesting a possible genetic basis for the variations.

The Pacific coast of the Tohoku region has been struck by four large tsunamis in just over a century - in 1896, 1933, 1960 and 2011.

A total of 17 graduate students from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has been honored with 2016 Global Ph.D Fellowship.

Atom-by-atom deposition leads to low-cost, high-performance transparent electronic materials.

Nanocrystals that generate white light could help combine lighting and communications systems into one.

Researchers round up clues to track down enhancers.

Understanding the impact of surface defects underpins the improved efficiency of hybrid organic/inorganic solar cells.

A sketch-based query for searching for relationships among objects in images could enhance the power and utility of image search tools.

Effective antiviral drugs for multiple Influenza A strains could work by attacking combined RNA targets.

Silicon holograms harness the full visible spectrum to bring holographic projections one step closer.

International research team led by Nagoya University identifies peptide required for awn development in wild rice, and shows that human selection caused its dysfunction in cultivated Asian rice.

Goblin sharks have revealed a remarkable biting mechanism, named “slingshot feeding,” which involves high-speed manipulation of the species’ highly protrusible jaws.

Nonsurfactant polymers template produces a highly porous, three-dimensional inorganic crystal to enhance catalysis and separation.

The ultra-low background KamLAND-Zen detector, hosted by research institutes inside and outside Japan demonstrates the best sensitivity in the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay, and sets the best limit on the effective Majorana neutrino mass.

A team at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University was commissioned to scrutinise the operational performance of Rio de Janeiro metro trains before the official launch of the Olympic line at Rio de Janeiro on 30 July 2016.

Researchers at iCity Lab, Singapore, are using sensors to increase the safety of seniors who live independently in their own homes.

Determining who is legally answerable for a wrong in the civil context can be complicated, but a researcher from Singapore Management University is helping to clear the air.

Despite its ascent on the world stage, research conducted by Researcher from Singapore Management University shows that China may prefer to keep a low profile in global organisations.

Researcher from Singapore Management University is uncovering the implications of informal business networks between top executives and their independent auditors.

A new study, led by Prof. Jaesung Jang at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea, has developed a new sensor for early detection of heart attack in humans.

Japanese baby macaques show spontaneous smiles in their sleep, just like humans and chimpanzee babies. This finding points to an older evolutionary origin of smiling and laughter.

The newly launched Hokkaido Summer Institute (HSI) program has gotten off to a great start. HSI brings Hokkaido University’s faculty members and more than 80 world-leading researchers from outside Japan together to provide special learning experiences to undergraduate and graduate students.

Hokkaido University researchers have synthesised a uniquely structured platinum-based superconducting material.

Hotels usually offer rewards to customers in form of economic or social benefits. Researchers in Hong Kong have recently conducted a study to explore how customers perceive different types of rewards and how those perceptions influence customer loyalty.

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) binding fluorescent probes have been powerful and important analytical tools for the study of RNA structures and functions.

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea, is well-represented 2016 List of Most Cited Researchers in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) by Elsevier Scopus Data, which includes only the top 300 of the world's researchers in the field of MSE ranked by the total citations of their papers.