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Archaeology
Archaeology, Kyoto University, News Release 01/21/2020
The little auks that lived in the Pacific
Findings from a 700,000-year-old fossil bone indicate that a close relative of the most abundant seabird species in the North Atlantic, the modern dovekie, or ‘little auk’, used to thrive in the Pacific Ocean and Japan.
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Biology, Kumamoto University, News Release 03/03/2020
Actin filaments control the shape of the cell structure that divides plant cells
The video reveals that the shape of phragmoplasts–cell structures that create the partition between two dividing plant cells–is controlled by actin filaments.
Read MoreChemistry
Chemistry, iCeMS, Kyoto University, News Release 02/28/2020
New state-of-the-MOF materials
Converting crystalline metal-organic frameworks into glass or liquid could give them unique properties and lead to the design of new materials
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News Release, OIST, Physics 03/02/2020
Exciting apparatus helps atoms see the light
Researchers have generated Rydberg atoms – unusually large excited atoms – near nanometer-thin optical fibers.
Read MoreBooks
Books, Humanities, Kyoto University 02/17/2020
Visualizing Taste – How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat
Ai Hisano exposes how corporations, the American government, and consumers shaped the colors of what we eat and even the colors of what we consider “natural,” “fresh,” and “wholesome.”
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