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Just as our human body has a sophisticated regulation system that uses various transmitter substances, plants must also have a similar regulating system - but how does it work? A basic research project that attempted to answer this question...

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As if anxiously awaiting the end of the presentation on "The Forefront of Pyramid Research" by Associate Professor Yukinori Kawae of Nagoya University's Institute for Advanced Research, Professor Sei-ichiro Watanabe of the Graduate School o...

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The asteroid explorer Hayabusa2 of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will attempt to make a second touch-down on the asteroid Ryugu as early as the end of June. Ryugu is a small object about one kilometer in diameter, currently...

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It goes without saying that research and education at universities would not be possible without the support of many people working in different roles. Some of these activities are common across all disciplines, while others are unique to a...

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August 29, 2018

Go for the Triple Three!

Prof. Hiroshi Amano of the Nagoya University Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability wants to transform the world through electronics. To achieve this goal, the world's largest research laboratory of its kind was recently comp...

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Atsuko TSUJI

Earned B.A. in Arts, College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo in 1976. Joined The Asahi Shimbun Company in 1979 as a journalist and wrote many articles in science and technology area for newspaper and magazines...[read more] published by the company including editorial pieces. Knight Science Journalism Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989 and Reuters Fellow at University of Oxford in 2014. Designated Professor of Nagoya University's Institute of International Education and Exchange since October 2016. [close]

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