Dietary Therapy for Cancer? Amino Acid Consumption Determines the Fate of Cancer Cells
A research group at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) has discovered molecular events that determine whether cancer cells live or die. With…
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Incredible Cosmic Conditions: Bringing Neutron Stars Down to Earth
An international research team led by Michigan State University has helped create cosmic conditions at RIKEN’s heavy-ion accelerator in Japan. Imagine taking all of the…
Enabling Better Optoelectronic Devices With Thin Cuprous Iodide Film
Better optoelectronic devices could be realized using a high-quality film of cuprous iodide. A defect-free thin film of cuprous iodide—made up of just one crystal—has…
Mysterious Giant Radio Pulses From Pulsars Are Hundreds of Times More Energetic Than Previously Believed
A group led by scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, using coordinated observations of the Crab pulsar in a number of frequencies, have…
Quantum Nanodevice Can Be Both a Heat Engine and Refrigerator at the Same Time
A multitasking nanomachine that can act as a heat engine and a refrigerator at the same time has been created by RIKEN engineers. The device…
Dark Matter Candidate Could Generate String-Like Entities in Exotic Materials
Calculations show how theoretical ‘axionic strings’ could create odd behavior if produced in exotic materials in the lab. A hypothetical particle that could solve one…
Biomarker Discovered That Can Detect Autism Spectrum Disorder in Preschool-Aged Children
Researchers led by Takeo Yoshikawa at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have discovered a biomarker that can detect autism spectrum disorder (ASD)…
Amazingly Strong and Lightweight Spider Silk Made by Photosynthetic Bacteria
Spiders produce amazingly strong and lightweight threads called draglines that are made from silk proteins. Although they can be used to manufacture a number of…
Scientists Design “Acoustic Diode” – Device Would Allow Sound Waves to Propagate in Only One Direction
In research published in Science Advances, a group led by scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) have used a principle, “magneto-rotation…
Unusual Sound Waves Induced Using Laser Pulses – 140 Years After Alexander Graham Bell Reported That Light Can Be Converted Into Sound Waves
Ultrashort laser pulses induce unusual sound waves via a structural instability in a material. RIKEN physicists have initiated unusual sound waves in a flake using…
Light “Hypernucleus” Predicted to Be Stable Despite Having Two Strange Quarks
Calculations predict that a light ‘hypernucleus’ containing a particle with two strange quarks will be stable Adding an exotic particle known as a Xi hyperon…
Clever Wiring Architecture Enables Bigger and Better Quantum Computers
Wiring a New Path to Scalable Quantum Computing Last year, Google produced a 53-qubit quantum computer that could perform a specific calculation significantly faster than…
Terahertz Radiation Can Disrupt Proteins in Living Cells – Contradicting Conventional Belief
Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics and collaborators have discovered that terahertz radiation, contradicting conventional belief, can disrupt proteins in living cells without…
Scientists Test Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity Using the Tokyo Skytree
In another verification of the validity of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, published in Nature Photonics, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics and…
Mechanical Forces Shape Animal “Origami” Precisely Despite “Noise” and Genetic Variation
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have identified a new mechanism that helps animals to develop with precise and…
Massive Protostar Surprisingly Keeps Growing, Which Could Help Solve a Galactic Mystery
Massive Protostar Keeps Growing Despite Ionization Heating by Ultraviolet Light A massive young star has been spotted that is continuing to grow despite boiling away…
Merger Between Two Stars Formed a Blue Supergiant, Led to Iconic Supernova Explosion
Simulations suggest that two stars came together to form a blue supergiant, which subsequently exploded. A supernova in a nearby galaxy may have originated from…
New Flexible Ultrathin Organic Solar Cell Is Both Highly Efficient and Durable
Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science have succeeded, in collaboration with international partners, in creating an…