Japanese researchers have built a pair of clocks that they say are so accurate they will lose a second only every 16 billion years — longer than the Earth has been around. “Cryogenic optical lattice clocks” are not pretty — they look more like giant stripped-down desktop computers than ordinary ...
Japan’s push to keep power flowing after it shuttered its nuclear program may best be illustrated by 73 million light ...
The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology approves a clinical trial to see whether screening embryos produced in vitro can ...
In a decision likely to stir fresh debate, the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology does not plan to recommend that healthy women freeze eggs for future pregnancy.
Nearly 30 percent of people injured in Aum Shinrikyo’s March 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on Tokyo’s subway system may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, a survey by a victim support organization showed Tuesday. According to the survey, which was conducted between October ...
Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, is set to become the first municipality in the country to effectively subsidize women who have their eggs frozen for use to get pregnant in later years.
Kyoto University Hospital says it will open a center to conduct clinical studies on induced pluripotent stem cell therapies in 2019 year. Officials said the 30-bed ward will test the efficacy and safety of the therapies on volunteer patients. The hospital aims to break ...
A team of Japanese researchers said they have found that theaflavin-3, or TF-3, a substance in black tea, is effective for treating osteoporosis. The team, including Keizo Nishikawa, assistant professor at Osaka University, unveiled this in the online edition of U.S. journal Nature Medicine ...
Japan's continued commitment to atomic energy will be important in reducing its emissions and also in improving global nuclear safety, the head of MIT's nuclear science department says.
A Japanese team of researchers has developed a method of creating three-dimensional retinal tissue from human embryonic stem cells, according to a study published on Thursday in an electronic edition of British science journal Nature Communications. The research team at the Kobe-based Riken Center ...
Health-conscious consumers are driving demand for strains of vegetables with enhanced nutritional qualities, and growers are eager to comply. So-called “functional vegetables” can command higher prices than ordinary strains, and farmers are trying to increase the range of these foods they offer. Dole Japan ...
Two beerlike nonalcoholic beverages on Wednesday obtained government recognition as a foodstuff with known health benefits, the first such designation for this group of products, despite a warning by an advisory panel that it might lead to more minors consuming alcoholic drinks. The Consumer ...
The government is considering designing a final storage site for nuclear waste that can be opened in the event that policies change or better techniques become available to deal with it.
“Hello and welcome. I can tell you about money exchange, ATMs, opening a bank account or overseas remittance. Which one would you like?” This greeting is not uttered by a human employee but, instead, a diminutive robot named Nao. Just 58 cm tall, the ...
The research institution at the center of a scandal over faked work is putting most of the blame on scientist Haruko Obokata and to a lesser extent three of her former colleagues.
