A smoker’s craving to light up can be tamed by carefully targeted magnetic fields applied to the brain, a Japanese-Canadian team has found. Scientists managed to zoom in on the exact spots that drive cravings for nicotine, noting that a mental connection made when ...
The 2013 Japan Prize will be awarded to three U.S. researchers for their scientific contributions in the fields of semiconductor manufacturing and ecology. The joint winners in the field of materials and production are C. Grant Willson, a chemistry professor at the University of ...
In Japan, school lunch means a regular meal, not one that harms your health. The food is grown locally and almost never frozen. There’s no mystery behind the meat. From time to time, parents even call up with an unusual question: Can they get ...
Kyoto University professor Shinya Yamanaka has revealed that a project to stockpile artificially derived stem cells for clinical research will start in early February. The project is intended to create induced pluripotent stem cells from the blood of people with rare cell forms, known ...
A “privacy visor” that uses infrared light to interfere with facial recognition technology has been developed to thwart the steady rise in computer-based surveillance in Japan. The goggles are useful for anyone who wants to avoid being recognized by hidden surveillance cameras, the inventors ...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. on Sunday successfully launched a radar satellite and an optical satellite using an H-IIA rocket. The rocket lifted off at 1:40 p.m. from JAXA’s Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, and ...
Erectile dysfunction drugs and a phenol found in green tea may be effective in fighting cancer when administered together, according to research on mice conducted by a Kyushu University academic. In the study published Friday in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, professor Hirofumi Tachibana ...
Seventy percent of pancreatic cancer patients who orally take the cancer drug S-1 survive two years after surgery, compared with 53 percent of those who receive the intravenous drug gemcitabine, a medical research group said Wednesday. The group, led by Katsuhiko Uesaka at Shizuoka ...
The cultivation of rice able to withstand intense summer heat without losing its taste is growing, with domestic farmers embracing such high-quality varieties as a lucrative source of income. The production of heat-tolerant varieties of the traditional staple surged about 50 percent from 2009 ...
Government-level talks began Sunday at the United Nations in Geneva on forming an international treaty to regulate mercury trading and prevent environmental and health problems arising from the toxic substance. Government representatives from more than 140 countries are participating in the talks to craft ...
A private entity soliciting egg donations for fertility treatment said Monday it will start recruiting women willing to donate them for free to help launch an “ovum bank.” It is in the first such endeavor by a private-sector group in Japan. The Oocyte Donation ...
Have you ever woken up but been unable to move; felt a powerful pressure holding you down, gripping you tight? Haruki Murakami has, and he describes it like this: “I was having a repulsive dream — a dark, slimy dream. … After I awoke, ...
