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…
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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…
Physicists Reveal a Neutron Halo Around Neutron-Rich Magnesium Nuclei
Using the RIKEN Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory, physicists have revealed that the extra neutrons in a neutron-rich magnesium nucleus produce a neutron halo. Most stable…
Higgs Boson May Explain the Earliest Expansion of the Universe
In a newly published study, physicists propose that the Higgs boson, which was recently confirmed to be the origin of mass, may also be responsible…
Supercomputer Simulations Open the Door for Numerical Modeling of Nuclear Interactions
Researchers from RIKEN detail the first supercomputer simulations of ‘spin–orbit’ forces between neutrons and protons in an atomic nucleus, opening the door for numerical modeling…
Researchers Demonstrate the Scalability of Quantum Dot Architectures
New research from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science reveals how arrays of electrons trapped in nanoscale circuitry could form the basis for future…