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Scientists discover new type of oxygen with strange properties
Scientists in Japan have created two new forms of oxygen that have unusual properties compared to popular theories about atomic structure.
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New technology
Japan has the world's fastest supercomputer for the first time
Not only dominating the processing speed, Fugaku supercomputer also occupies the top positions in 3 categories of applications in industry, applications of artificial in…
Biology
New research reveals a method to increase rubber latex production
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Natural Science (CSRS) in Japan and colleagues at Sains University in Malaysia (USM) have succeeded in explaining the gen…
Animal world
Successfully cloned mice from a drop of blood
The team at the Riken BioResource Center, City of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan led by scientist Atsuo Ogura used a blood cell in a rat's circulatory system to crea…
Science Events
4 new elements in the periodic table have been named by scientists
As discoverers of the new element, the aforementioned group of scientists has been given naming rights, with very specific criteria.
Science Events
Japanese scientists honored to name element 113
Japanese scientists have recently been honored by IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) to name the element 113.
Science Events
Vietnam-Japan is studying genetically modified cassava varieties
Vietnamese and Japanese scientists on May 22 agreed to study the application of genetic modification techniques to increase productivity and quality in Vietnamese cassav…
Science Events
Hunt for super heavy elements 119 and 120
In 2013, those who are interested will be able to watch the fierce horse race between the science knights from the Dubna (Russia-US) centers, GSI (Germany) and RIKEN (Ja…
Science Events
The 3rd International Scientific Conference on Asian Reproductive Biotechnology
From November 29 to December 3, 2006, the Institute of Biotechnology (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology) collaborated with Riken Institute of Development Biology…
Science story
Japanese stem cell specialist committed suicide because he was suspected of the idea
Japan 's stem cell scientist yesterday found suicide hanging, after months of exhaustion and stress thought to be related to research suspected of faking data and plagia…
Medicine - Health
Confirm that someone has successfully created STAP stem cells
Obokata said Riken has admitted that the person who successfully created STAP cells but she did not give the name of the person during the press conference on 9 April.
Medicine - Health
Suspects copying around STAP cell works
According to the Japanese Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Riken), at the present time, there has been no unusual change in the main content of STAP research…
Science invention
Japan found the 113th chemical element
According to Today's THV, a Japanese research institute has invented an unknown chemical element - the 113th element.
New technology
A lot of new radioactive isotopes have been discovered in Japan
Japanese physicists, in Physicsworld, reported in July 2010 that the list of known nuclear numbers was further extended with 45 new neutron-rich isotopes.