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Masaki Kashiwara, this year's Abel Prize winner, co-founded a new field of mathematics called algebraic analysis

The "Pale Blue Dot" hasn't always been the most apt nickname.

The first mass-produced hybrid EV is an IEEE milestone

Infiltrating ant colonies comes with a deadly risk.

Very few organizations have enough iron to train a large language model in a reasonably short amount of time, and that is why most will be grabbing

Scientists from Nagoya University have discovered a novel regulatory mechanism that controls the opening of stomata in plants, which is crucial for harnessing solar energy through photosynthesis. The team uncovered the role of phosphorylation at the 881st threonine residue (Thr881) of the plasma membrane proton pump in response to red and blue light in this process.

In a new study, scientists propose the concept of "virtual quantum broadcasting," which provides a workaround to the longstanding no-cloning theorem, thereby offering new possibilities for the transmission of quantum information.

Rotating detonation engines developed by NASA and others could spark a rocketry revolution

A chemical etching method for widening the pores of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) could improve various applications of MOFs, including in fuel cells and as catalysts. Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan and East China Normal University in China developed the new method with collaborators elsewhere in Japan, Australia, and China, and their work was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Electroporation is a technique in which scientists use a pulse of electricity to briefly open the pores of cells in order to insert other DNA, medicine, or other chemicals. Apparently, electric eel…

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have revealed new insights into the interaction between mast seeding plants and the animals that eat their seeds. Hanami Suzuki and Professor Hisashi Kajimura examined the behavior of field mice using seeds from once-in-a-century flowering sasa bamboo plants in central Japan.

The latest discovery of a Miyake-level solar storm only emphasizes that the disasters have struck with some regularity throughout history and likely will again.

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Light from the earliest galaxies zapped their surrounding gas, lifting the curtain on the cosmos, according to new research.

The submarine eruption of Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano last year reportedly disrupted satellite signals halfway around the world, according to scientists.

The 3D scanning of the mysterious fossil may have finally settled the argument about its classification as either a vertebrate or an invertebrate. The Tully monster (Tullimonstrum gregarium) has been a source of puzzlement for paleontologists for over 50 years due to its unusual anatomy, making i

Astronomical outbursts leave telltale carbon-14 spikes in tree rings

The plant Nicotiana benthamiana, from the Solanaceae family, is one of the most widely used experimental models in plant science. In 2020, a research group at Nagoya University in Japan reported that N. benthamiana could be grafted with plants from different families, demonstrating a rare ability that many researchers thought impossible.

Plant stomata are pores in the epidermis of plant leaves. They play a key role in regulating the gas-water exchange between the plant and the atmosphere, which enables photosynthesis and transpiration. Stomata have been shown to respond to a wide range of environmental conditions, including temperature, water availability, light intensity and leaf CO2 levels.

Flashes on the Sun Could Help Scientists Predict Solar Flares In the blazing upper atmosphere of the Sun, a team of scientists has found new clues that could help predict when and where the Sun's next flare might explode. Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, researchers fro