Japanese scientists to breed 'super tuna' Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
Japanese scientists will have bred a new "super-tuna" within a decade that will be stronger, more resistant to disease and taste better than the bluefin presently in the oceans.
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Japan seeks stress-free tuna for finer dining Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Japanese researchers are looking for ways to reduce stress levels in tuna caught in nearby waters, so they taste better when they hit the plate.
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Colossal new space 'blob' baffles scientists Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a massive and mysterious gas blob of the type that can be precursors to galaxies, which they dubbed Himiko.
The data used in identifying the megablob came from a suite of telescopes. Scientists said Himiko named for the legendary Japanese queen, existed when our universe was only about 800 million years old.
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Japan scientists clone legendary bull Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Japanese scientists said Thursday they had successfully cloned the ancestral bull of a luxurious brand of beef, possibly opening the way to distribute cloned beef.
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Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur.
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Scientists identify new dinosaur species in east China Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Japanese and Chinese scientists have announced the discovery of a new dinosaur species that used to roam the southwestern region of present-day Zhejiang province in east China 100 million years ago.
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Japanese team snaps first high-resolution image of body's peripheral nervous system Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
Japanese scientists have developed a new technique allowing them to take high-resolution images of the nerves in a patient's limbs for the first time.
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Super Fantastic Talent Show Japanese Posted: 2 years ago by Dangerman
Japanese Talent Show, like the Gong Show, but with no Gong. It does have a trap door above razor sharp spikes though.
( ok, maybe there's no spikes )
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British scientists make giant leap in Alzheimer's fight that could spare 100,000 sufferers every year Posted: 3 months ago by Bingo
British scientists have made the biggest breakthrough for more than 15 years in the fight against Alzheimer's.
It could cut the rate of new cases by a fifth - 100,000 a year in the UK alone. British and French teams have identified rogue genes responsible for one in five cases of the disease. The search is now on for drugs to combat them.
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Japanese researchers make brain tissues from stem cells Posted: 1 year ago by karenben
Japanese researchers said Thursday they had created functioning human brain tissues from stem cells, a world first that has raised new hopes for the treatment of disease.
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UCLA Scientists Design New Super-Hard Material Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
UCLA scientists are now reporting a promising new approach to designing super-hard materials, which are very difficult to scratch or crack.
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Salk scientists claim significant step in stem-cell therapy Posted: 6 months ago by bingo
Scientists say they've taken a significant step toward using stem cells and gene therapy to cure a genetic disease.
The team corrected a defective gene in cells taken from patients with Fanconi anemia, a disease that can lead to bone marrow failure, leukemia and other cancers.
“We haven't cured a human being, but we have cured a cell,” Belmonte said. “In theory we could transplant it into a human and cure the disease.”
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The Notes of Japanese Soldiers Posted: 1 year ago by MissWinkle
Manga diary of the Japanese WWII prisoner in the USSR. Interestingly, descriptions in languages other than English are a lot more detailed.
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Scientists discover new ocean current Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new climate pattern called the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. This new pattern explains, for the first time, changes in the water that are important in helping commercial fishermen understand fluctuations in the fish stock.
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Scientists identify genes behind ageing process Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists have identified genes which control the ageing process in findings which could lead to new drugs to prevent illnesses from heart disease to Alzheimer's.
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Scientists develop computer that can 'translate' a dog's bark Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
What would a dog say if it could talk? "Stranger", "fight", "walk", "alone", "ball" and "play", according to scientists who have developed a computer programme to translate dog barks. The special programme analysed more than 6,000 barks from 14 Hungarian sheepdogs in six different situations.
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Scientists break the speed of light Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
It was supposed to be the one speed limit you cannot break. But scientists claim to have demonstrated there is the possibility of travel faster than the speed of light.
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Scientists find new species in Papua New Guinea Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
A brilliant green tree frog with huge black eyes, jumping spiders and a striped gecko are among more than 50 new animal species scientists have discovered in a remote, mountainous region of Papua New Guinea.
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Scientists discover the existence of a fatherhood gene Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
Men with lots of brothers are more likely to have sons than daughters, scientists claim after studying family trees dating back more than 400 years.
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Obamamania scores hit for Japanese mask-maker Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
For those who just can't get enough of US president-elect Barack Obama, a Japanese mask-maker is giving thousands of people the chance to be his spitting image. Ogawa Rubber Inc., Japan's top rubber mask studio, is moving into high gear and is manufacturing more than 300 masks of the next US president each day ahead of his inauguration on January 20.
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Scientists defy gravity by getting droplets to flow uphill Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
British scientists have managed to make water trickle up a steep slope. The secret of their success lies in nothing more than shaking the surface the droplets were lying on - in this case a plastic plate.
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