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Flaring, massively
How does the spider spin its self-assembled silk?
A special elemental magic
Reducing the high social cost of death
Order from chaos
Two for the price of one
From bacteria to you: the biological reactions that sustain our rhythms
How do birds understand 'foreign' calls?
Changing ties that naturally bind
Detect with PKAchu
Terahertz zaps alter gene activity in stem cells
Using a chip to find better cancer fighting drugs
An overactive cerebellum causes issues across the brain
Bridging the scales of the brain
Lend me a flipper
Why fruit flies eat practically anything
The little auks that lived in the Pacific
Let there be light-activated genes
Chimps caught crabbing
Testing corneal cell quality? Apply physics
A petrifying virus key to evolution
Prince Charming's kiss unlocking brain's regenerative potential?
Infertility's roots in DNA packaging
A study in scarlet Japanese macaques
New gears in your sleep clock
What does the koala genome tell us about the taste of eucalyptus?
Japanese in Canada, with mixed feelings
Talking to an android
Finding success through failure
Giant, recently extinct seabird also inhabited Japan
Using microcredit to increase rice yield in Bangladesh
Making an eye for you
High achievement not always based on high student initiative
How does HIV escape cellular booby traps?
Twisting graphene into spirals
Studying the human impact on sea urchin abundance
Using geometry and qubits to build real universes
What a handsome schnoz!
Capturing the rare Yanbaru whiskered bat
Electro-mechano-optical NMR detection
Special delivery: macromolecules via spider’s ‘bite’
Black hole pair born inside a dying star?
Lightning, with a chance of antimatter
Cells rockin’ in their DNA
Winds blowing off a dying star
The secret lives of ancient land plants
How am I feeling? Ask my house
Visualizing danger from songbird warning calls
Cells pumping iron to prevent anemia
What grosses out a chimpanzee?
Energizing immune cells to combat cancer
Charting the skies of history
Untangling the knots in cell stress
Take a look, and you’ll see, into your imagination
Visualizing nuclear radiation
High stakes, high risk, and a bad bet
Born to love superheroes
You don’t see what I see?
Choosing a simpler path to drug discovery
Disentangling chloroplast genetics
Nicking in new nucleotides
Homosexual termite regicide
Is it your second cousin? Cotton swabs may tell you
Mt Aso could erupt much sooner, scientists warn
The sea roils and life returns
Drinking green tea to prevent artery explosion
Great apes can “read minds”
Aging bonobos in the wild could use reading glasses too
Safety in darkness
A big nano boost for solar cells
Smiling baby monkeys and the roots of laughter
Proteins at the movies
The search for happiness: using MRI to find where happiness happens
To hear a pitter patter from afar: catching heartbeats with milimeter-wave radar
Did the LIGO gravitational waves originate from primordial black holes?
Genetically modified E.coli pump out morphine precursor
“Seeing” black holes with home-use telescopes
“Popular girls” have less lice – in the monkey world
Fish oil helps burn fat by transforming fat-storage cells into fat-burning cells
‘Slow’ NZ seabed quake sheds light on tsunami-earthquake mechanism
Australopithecus fossils found east of the Great Rift Valley
Flipping a protein switch to illuminate brain functions
Cancer cell immunity in the crosshairs: worth the expense?
“Big mama” bonobos help younger females stand up for themselves
MOL-ECOL
Molecular Phenology and the Seasonality of Genes
REACT-PHYS
The Challenge of Nuclear Transmutation
GEOFLUID-CHEM
Does Water Come from the Deep Earth?
ECOL
How is Biodiversity Created in Nature?
BIO-SCI
Improving Wheat
MAR-ECOL
Dynamics of Zooplankton
PHYS-ECO
Ogasawara Islands: A Natural World Heritage Site
VOLCANOL
Mitigation of Volcanic Hazards
SILVICULT
Learning from Old Japanese Ways
MED-SCI
Attacking Cancer with Neutrons
HYDRAUL
Capture the Wind, Waves, and Currents
ECOL
How Does Winter Climate Change Affect Forests?
GEO-PHYS
Seeing Underground with Seismic Waves
ANIM-ECOL
Do Infants Grown Slowly Catch Up Ones Grown Fast?
SYST FISH
Fish in the Sea of Japan
HUM ECOSYST
The Kozagawa Project
MARINE BOIL
Biodiversity in Marine and Freshwater Crustaceans
MARINE BOIL
Mathematics Reveals the Origin of Cooperation
ANIM SYST BIOL
Will Human Dreams of Immortality Come True Through Jellyfish Research?
ENG
Magic Toilet: The Future of Global Sanitation
NUCL REACTOR PHYS
How Do We Calculate the Value of π?
EVOL MORPH PRI
The Evolutionary Morphology of Macaques
EVOL MORPH PRI
Why are Genomic “Garbage Cans” Important?
PRIMATOL
Our Evolutionary Neighbors
ASTROPHYS
Black Holes: Monsters in the Universe
CHEM ECOL
How Do Plants Smell Danger?
GEO-PHYS
Seeking the Forerunners of Earthquakes
SEISMOL
The Mystery of Earthquake Generation
FOREST
Why are Forests Important?
MAR-SCI
Exploring Underwater in Japan
SOLAR PHYS
Space Weather Forecasts
PALEONTOL
Searching for Primate Fossils in Southeast Asia
CULT PSYCH
What is happiness in Japanese culture?
DEV GENET
Tissue Growth Regulation through Cell-Cell Communications
HIST ARCH
Manifold Narratives for Kyoto Studies
HIST
Japanese Modernization and International Cooperation
HIST
The History of the Japanese language
ATMOS RADER
Radar Atmospheric Physics for Accurate Weather Forecasts
LETT & ICT
Reading and Publishing One of the Longest Diaries in the World
JPN EDU
Concepts Beyond Words
SOL-PHYS
Explosions on the Sun
PSYCHOANAL
Can You See Me?
INT’L MKTG
The Competitive Advantage of Omotenashi in the Global Market
ART HIST
The Sculptors of Buddha
MGMNT
Reasons for Innovation
HIST OF ARCH
Anti-Global Investigation of Historic Heritages
PHILOSOPHY
Philosophizing with the Kyoto School
JPN-HIST
Should Tsurezuregusa be Classified as Edo Literature?
SOCIAL
Studies of Popular Culture
EVOL-BIOL
Common in Japan, Special to the World
JPN-ARCHAEOL
Mysterious Inventory, Shizai-cho !
PRIMATOL
Too Old for Her Age
EDU HIST
Exploring Japanese Education History from the Perspective of Gender
POMOLOG
The Sexuality of Persimmon Trees
CONTEMP-CULT
Harmful Rumors in the Area of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
SEISMOL
Earthquake Cycle Simulation
JPN LIT
Elucidation of the Source and Work Process of Literature
HIS LAW
Law as a Basis of Modernization in Japan
ARCHAEOL
What is the Agricultural Society?
JPN ECON HIST
Improving the Employment Situation in Japan
JPN-LIT
The Charm of Japanese Studies
HIST
Exploring Ancient Temples
JPN HIST
Why Were Samurai Governments Established?
ART
TOSA RIMPA
MOL-CELL-BIOL
Anti-aging Compounds Act in Mitochondria
MATS-SCI
Battery Materials with a 70-Year Cycle-Life
ANIM-BEHAV
Wolves Communicate with their Eyes
STAT-PHYS
When Simple Liquids are not so Simple
BIOORG
Chemicals Modulate Protein Interactions
ORG-CHEM
What Does a Catalyst Do?
ORG-CHEM
Multi-Physics in Nanostructures
ICT
Toward a New Epilepsy Model of Care
MED-CHEM
Phospholipid Scrambling on Plasma Membranes
SOL-PHYS
Storms in Space
WOOD-CHEM
Trees, Fungi, and Humans － in Harmony with the Earth
DISASTER-MANAG
Neighborhood Power
ORG-CHEM
Organic Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries
ART-HIST
