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…
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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…
Key Insight Enables Measuring Electron Spin Qubit Without Demolishing It
A group of scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan have succeeded in taking repeated measurements of the spin of an…
Fear-Memory Formation Visualized in Living Mouse Brain for the First Time
Brain-Cell Helpers Powered by Norepinephrine During Fear-Memory Formation A sustained state of vigilance will generate a different type of memory than a momentary startle, and…
New Approach in the Hunt for Dark Matter: Antimatter and Penning Traps
Researchers now harnessing antimatter in their search for dark matter. A study that takes a novel approach to the search for dark matter has been…
Mysteries of Dark Matter and Antimatter May Be Linked
Could the profound mysteries of antimatter and dark matter be linked? Thinking that they might be, scientists from the international BASE collaboration, led by Stefan…
Discovery Leads to Schizophrenia Biomarker and New Insights on Cause and Treatment
Working with model mice, post-mortem human brains, and people with schizophrenia, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have discovered that a…
Intense Isotope Beam Used to Confirm a New ‘Magic Number’ for Neutrons
An international collaboration led by scientists from the University of Hong Kong, RIKEN (Japan), and CEA (France) have used the RI Beam Factory (RIBF) at…
Massive Filaments Connect Galaxies and Fuel the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes
An international group of scientists led by the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have used observations from the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the…
Astronomers Pinpoint Origin of Photons in Mysterious Gamma-Ray Bursts
Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and collaborators have used simulations to show that the photons emitted by long gamma-ray bursts–one of the…
Scientists Link Bipolar Disorder to Mitochondrial Disease
Mutations in the gene ANT1 may confer a risk for bipolar disorder through a complex interplay between serotonin and mitochondrial signaling in the brain. These…
Biologists Reveal Key Mechanism Behind the Formation of Spider Silk
A group of scientists led by researchers from the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have examined the soluble precursor of spider silk and…
Scientists Reveal Blueprint for How to Construct a Large Scale Quantum Computer
Scientists have unveiled the first ever practical blueprint for how to build a quantum computer. This huge leap forward towards creating a universal quantum computer…