Advanced Science

On September 9–10, the third Noyori Summer School was held at Kobe Port Island, home to the RIKEN Kobe Institute and the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS). The summer school, launched in 2009, provides opportunities for young researchers from around the world to meet RIKEN leaders and interact with one another.

A bismuth-based semiconducting material could enable control of electron spin, a crucial requirement for advancing novel devices

Improvements to specialized valves that separate spin and electron currents may lead to higher-density magnetic media

Current flowing along the edges of a promising quantum device is insensitive to its magnetic impurities

RIKEN invites applications for the position of Chief Scientist to lead a new laboratory working on The Advanced Science Institute (ASI). Applications from overseas applicants are welcome

The entrapment of antimatter for 16 minutes allows for tests of the foundations of physics

A method that rapidly unveils the mode of action of anticancer compounds could soon streamline therapeutic drug discovery

Researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (ASI) has shed light on a class of heterometallic molecular structures whose features point the way to breakthroughs in the development of lightweight fuel cell technology. The structures contain a combination of rare-earth and d-transition metals ideally suited to the compact storage of hydrogen.

The ability to use magnetic fields to control a newly identified state of matter could enable more efficient memory devices

Identification of enzymes critical to natural bacterial drug production points to shortcuts for building better therapeutic agents

The ability to control how magnetic vortices gyrate together has potential application in magnetic devices

The observation and manipulation of single molecules by scanning tunneling microscopy is opening new frontiers in nanoscience

Noise reduction in advanced computing circuits comes a step closer thanks to measurements of the noise spectrum affecting superconducting circuits

RIKEN invites applications for the position of Chief Scientist to lead a new laboratory working on The Advanced Science Institute (ASI). All applications should reach RIKEN by August 15, 2011.

The strong coupling between electrical currents and magnetization in topological insulator materials is surprisingly unaffected by impurities

RIKEN invites applications for the position of Chief Scientist to lead a new laboratory working on The Advanced Science Institute (ASI). Applications from overseas applicants are welcome.

RIKEN researchers show how the effects of stress can be passed down the generations by mechanisms outside genetic inheritance. Published in the journal Cell, the results mark a major advancement in our understanding of non-Mendelian inheritance.

Research into cellular sugar chains is revealing a series of new properties and functions with potential application in the diagnosis and treatment of disease

The year 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of Japan–Germany relations as well as the centennial of the Max Planck Society (MPG), an important international partner for RIKEN.

Insights gained by the Biosphere Oriented Biology Research Unit into complex biological systems could revolutionize energy production and re-integrate society into the global ecological cycle

RIKEN (President Ryoji Noyori) and the Max Planck Society (MPG; President Peter Gruss) signed an agreement on April 27, 2011, to strengthen their collaboration by establishing a joint research center for systems chemical biology, a field that seeks to achieve a systematic understanding of biological systems from a chemistry perspective.

IHPC’s William Yim from Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) was part of a research team that has made an impactful discovery.

On April 12, Dr. Naoyuki Taniguchi, Group Director of RIKEN Advanced Science Institute was awarded the Japan Academy Prize for the following achievements.

On 7 March 2011, the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (ASI) welcomed Ada Yonath from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel to present a special lecture at RIKEN’s Wako Campus

Mercury-containing oxides offer a new perspective on the mechanism of superconductivity

Free-floating electrons on top of liquid helium yield insights into their transport behavior

Using a simple glass capillary, atomic physicists at RIKEN are developing an ultra-narrow ion beam that pinpoints a part of organelles in a living cell, enabling biologists to visualize how the damage affects cell activities.

Dr. Hideki Hirayama has won an Achievement Award in the 43rd Ichimura Science Awards for his work on the development of high-quality AlGaN-based semiconductor crystals and advanced research on deep-UV LEDs. Dr. Hirayama is the leader of the Terahertz Quantum Device Team at RIKEN Advanced Science Insitute (ASI).

A common industrial magnet exhibits rare and potentially useful qualities when its composition is slightly altered

Calculations can now predict when and how spins of electrons and ions arrange in one-dimensional multiferroic materials