Fall is here, and with it comes the latest issue of RIKEN Research. This issue covers tactile learning during sleep, supercomputers and simulations, solar cells, fly olfaction, tumor vaccines, and more

Scientists show that two epigenetic factors improve the success rate of cloning via somatic cell nuclear transfer.

A new way to image the brain from outside the head using bioluminescence.

Scientists designed transgenic plants that survive drought-like conditions by bumping up acetic acid production only when water is scarce.

An international collaboration has determined that cooption of the Heat Shock Factor (HSF) gene system is what allows larvae of the sleeping chironomid to be able to survive severe desiccation.