Topic: Japan
Scientists from Japan and Russia believe it may be possible to clone a mammoth after finding well-preserved bone marrow in a thigh bone recovered from permafrost soil in Siberia, a report said Saturday.Teams from the Sakha Republic's mammoth museum and Japan's Kinki ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hate mornings, especially on Mondays? You may be surprised to know that much of the world doesn't share that grumpy feeling.Twitter shows people are more cheerful in the morning, get gloomier as the day wears on and rebound in ...
(Reuters) - Prognosticators who predicted the end of the world and got it wrong, scientists who built a wasabi fire alarm, and researchers who studied how the urge to urinate affects decision-making were among the winners of spoof Ig Nobel prizes on ...
A new species of eel found in the gloom of an undersea cave is a "living fossil" astonishingly similar to the first eels that swam some 200 million years ago, biologists reported on Wednesday.The strange find was made last year in a ...
Yoko Ono has an idea for her disaster-scarred country Japan -- abandon nuclear energy for renewables and tap the geothermal energy beneath the unstable ground of the volcanic island nation.The artist and widow of John Lennon is in Japan for the first ...
Japanese bio engineers have succeeded in growing a tooth from cells implanted into a mouse kidney, using a technique that could create replacement organs faster than previously tested methods.Biologists have previously cultivated teeth in a laboratory and successfully transplanted them into the ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Microbes may be harnessed more easily to generate energy after a finding about how they naturally let off tiny electrical charges, scientists said on Monday.The bacteria, found to have microscopic "wires" sticking through their cell walls, might also be ...
Japanese scientists at a boozy office party stumbled across a discovery they hope will help revolutionise efficient energy transmission one day: red wine makes a metal compound superconductive.The researchers plan to showcase their surprise findings later this year, the 100th anniversary of ...
Vision of the disastrous tsunami rolling onto Japan after last week's massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake will provide valuable data to scientists for years to come, Australian experts said Wednesday.Compelling images of the monster wave crashing onto low-lying farmland in Japan's northeast, sweeping all ...
Experts monitoring weather patterns for any fallout from Japan's stricken nuclear plant said Tuesday the winds had so far been favourable but they were less confident about the outlook later this week.The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said winds on Saturday and Monday ...
