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RIKEN Research Winter Issue
The geometry of consciousness is a multi-dimensional math trip
RIKEN Research Fall Issue
Locating social memories in the brain
Big news in iPS cell transplants
In Japan, women in science seek allies, resources in push for gender equality
Measuring altitude — with clocks?
The sound of molecules: NMR-inspired music
Eve Marder: freeing knowledge, crashing neurons
None of us would get on a plane that had its parts changed in mid-air, says Eve Marder, who has spent her career probing a very specific cluster of crustacean nerve cells. Yet we are all walking around undergoing a constant turnover of cellular parts, and so are the lobsters and crabs Marder studies.
RIKEN Research Summer issue
ESOF and the gimungous telescope
Call for science-inspired art
Why “nihonium”?
Nerd Nite comes to Tokyo
RIKEN Research Spring issue is here
Organ regeneration in the lab
Of mice and NREM: In this brain circuit, memories depend on sleep
Dear RIKEN: Can you bring frozen animals back to life?
From evolutionary morphology to Godzilla
Award-winning 3D images of living cells
Electrolithoautotrophs
Element 113: “discovery” or not?
Black smokers and electroecosystems
Science communication symposium
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Chaos theory provides hints for controlling the weather
Robotic exoskeleton learns to help people stand up
Nanocarrier spray: better crops without genetic modification
Introducing Nikola, the emotional android boy
Green hydrogen production for fuel cells and fertilizers
Social contact-seeking behavior and loneliness in the brain
New treatment assembles cancer drug inside the body
New lab-grown retinal sheets almost ready for clinical trials
The free-energy principle explains neural network behavior
Dec
26
Replicating opossum heart regeneration to help fight cardiovascular disease
Animated research highlight: Opossum hearts hint at new ways of fighting cardiovascular disease
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26
Spacey, nerdy nights in Tokyo
Kelly, our new It Ain’t Magic contributor, writes about her nerdy nighttime experiences in Tokyo. Continue!
Dec
16
Memories are made of this ? ? – (Part 1)
Brain science ’round midnight episode 8: Thomas McHugh from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science discusses memories and the brain Continue!
Nov
18
Hibernation-like state can protect kidneys during heart surgery
Activating Q-neurons in the mouse brain led to a hibernation-like state that protected kidneys during heart surgery. Continue!
Sep
14
Crying baby? Science says walk, then sit
Recipe for success: Walk 5 min, sit 8 min, lay no-longer-crying baby down. Now you can relax. Continue!
Sep
6
Cyborg cockroaches to the rescue!
The key to this remote-controllable cyborg cockroach is a solar-cell rechargeable battery and an ultrathin flexible backpack. Continue!