Advanced Science

Some of Waseda University's robots include TWENDY-ONE which supports the elderly, WABIAN-2 and KOBIAN bi-pedal robots with emotions, SCHEMA, the robot that can converse with many people and TWIns institute for breast cancer tumor surgery

Opens the Way to Research on Spin Properties and Device Applications of Graphene and Other 2-Dimensional Materials

Researchers have developed nano-adhesive plasters that can easily be applied to lacerated vessel walls with no adhesive, and succeeded in arresting massive bleeding from the inferior vena cava in rabbits.

The Graduate School of Technology Management (GSTM) at UNIST, S. Korea, is officially recognized as a PSM Affiliation. The first PSM program in Korea and Asia.

A large number of tropical forest protected areas are experiencing a decline in biodiversity, according to an analysis in Nature this week. These reserves are supposed to represent a final refuge for threatened species and natural ecosystem processes, as concerns about human impacts on tropical biodiversity grow.

Saitama, Japan, 20 May 2012 - The relativistic Hall effect describing objects rotating at speeds comparable with the speed of light has now been reported.

Conserving electricity is an absolute necessity due to the power shortage associated with the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster.

Researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute have developed a unique way to create full-color holograms with the aid of surface plasmons

Fluorescence-yield x-ray spectroscopy provides a view into how organic transistors work at the molecular scale

An Alaskan beetle beats the cold using an unusual, natural antifreeze with a novel mode of action that scientists are beginning to unravel

Researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics have discovered an answer to the long-standing mystery of how brain cells can both remember new memories while also maintaining older ones.

A theory that accurately describes the properties of relativistic electron vortex beams will impact applications such as electron microscopy

Derivation of equations that describe the dynamics of complex magnetic quasi-particles may aid the design of novel electronic devices

Industrial chemistry is set to improve from novel rare-earth metal catalysts that reduce waste and improve aromatic bond-forming reactions

Demonstration of a rare combination of electric and magnetic properties in a now readily producible material could improve electronic memory devices

High-level spectroscopy and computer simulations of specially diluted liquids reveal the long-debated structure of air–water interfaces

A chemical probe that can differentiate between chemical tags adorning DNA could provide insights into how nature switches genes on and off

Discovery of a molecular basis for type 2 diabetes reveals how fatty diets can interfere with control of blood sugar levels

Modifications to chromosomal proteins help ensure that brain-specific sugars are produced only in the appropriate tissues.

A newly developed group of fluorescent probes highlights cancer cells resistant to anticancer drugs

Life Sciences, environment and engineering News from the Tokyo Science and Innovation Section 5 December 2011

Real-time x-ray measurements of remarkable rare-earth/transition metal clusters expose the secrets of storing and releasing hydrogen gas

A single sugar molecule plays an outsized role in helping a glucose-transporting protein respond promptly to insulin signals

Copper–carbene catalysts reveal the critical interactions needed to turn waste carbon dioxide into chemical feedstocks

The development of electrolytic in-process dressing grinding more than 20 years ago set in motion a revolution in nanoprecision machining that continues today

Electrically controlling the magnetic polarization of nuclei offers a new way to store quantum information

Flies can pass the effects of stress to their young in the form of chromosomal modifications that alter expression of selected genes

Artificial atoms give insight into how real atoms interact with light in real time

Preparing chromosomes for cell division is a balancing act involving a tug-of-war between opposing molecular actions

Elucidation of the structure of receptors that detect invading pathogens in moths could aid the diagnosis of infectious fungal diseases