Immigrant Japan: understanding modern Japan through the lives and minds of migrants
In a new book, interviews of over 200 migrants in Japan give a glimpse of what life is like for immigrants in the Japanese societyCredit:...
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Shedding light on dark traps
Scientists pinpoint origin of defects that sap potential of next gen solar techCredit: OIST/Togo A multi-institutional collaboration, co-led by scientists at the University of Cambridge...
Mouse study shows ‘chaperone protein’ protects against autoimmune diseases
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Like a parent of teenagers at a party, Mother Nature depends on chaperones to keep one of her charges, the immune...
Future dynamics prediction from short-term time series by anticipated learning machine
(a) The general principle of Anticipated Learning Machine (ALM). The observed attractor, a delay attractor and sampled nondelay attractors are all topologically conjugate with each...
Researchers restore sight in mice by turning skin cells into light-sensing eye cells
NIH-funded study offers new path to modeling eye disease, advancing therapiesCredit: Sai Chavala Researchers have discovered a technique for directly reprogramming skin cells into light-sensing...
N-doped porous carbon supported Fe single atom catalysts for highly efficient ORR
Credit: ©Science China Press Noble metals (e.g., platinum) are often used as catalysts in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) of fuel cell cathodes. However, the...
Studying pterosaurs and other fossil flyers to better engineer manmade flight
Credit: Mark Witton Pterosaurs were the largest animals ever to fly. They soared the skies for 160 million years--much longer than any species of modern...
T2K insight into the origin of the universe
Credit: Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo Lancaster physicists working on the T2K major international experiment in Japan are...
Sarit Kraus named ACM Athena Lecturer for contributions to artificial intelligence
Bar-Ilan University professor is world leader in multi-agent systems, automated negotiationCredit: Bar-Ilan University ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Sarit Kraus of Bar-Ilan...
Soot may only be half the problem when it comes to cookstoves
Researchers find organic carbons are also absorbing light -- and likely harming people's healthCredit: Washington University in St. Louis A telltale signature of a cookstove,...
New silicon chip ‘fingerprint’ for stronger hardware security at low cost
Novel PUF silicon fingerprinting technique achieves long-term stability using machine learning, eliminates conventional attack points via physical hiding, and reduces cost of chip design and...
Novel tin ‘bubbles’ spur advances in the development of integrated chips
Credit: Keiji Nagai The use of extreme ultraviolet light sources in making advanced integrated chips has been considered, but their development has been hindered owing...
‘Frailty’ from age 40 — what to look out for
Diet, exercise, mental wellbeing, sleep all factorsCredit: Flinders University With all eyes on avoiding major illness this year, health researchers are urging people as young...
ECMO physicians offer guidance in the context of resource-scarce COVID-19 treatment
Credit: ATS April 15, 2020 - Rapidly escalating numbers of COVID-19 patients suffering from respiratory failure threaten to overwhelm hospital capacity and force healthcare providers...
Fossil record analysis hints at evolutionary origins of insects’ structural colors
Analysis of 13,000-year-old fossils suggest photonic nanostructures in insects, which create colorful iridescent colors, may have originated as a means of camouflageCredit: James McKay Researchers...
