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It is said that we know more about the surface of Mars than the seafloor. A new technique could help us fill in the blanks by using deep-dwelling rays to survey the seabed for us, and possibly even power the required hardware themselves.

Compelling new research, studying zebrafish fights, is suggesting the fight-or-flight mechanism is modulated by a hormone that regulates appetite. And when the fish are starving this mechanism is triggered, helping them fight significantly longer.

The world’s most powerful supercomputer has just fired up. A newcomer named Fugaku has nabbed the number one spot in the Top500 list of supercomputers, surpassing Summit, the reigning champion of the past few years.

In a new study, researchers looked at the immune systems of people who have hit the milestone of 110 years old, and found that they have a high number of a particular type of immune cell that’s rare even in healthy, younger people.

A new study from a team of Japanese researchers is presenting a novel hypothesis as to the cause of a subtype of schizophrenia. The study also suggests a biomarker in human follicles could allow future diagnoses to be made using a single hair.

Rice is the world's third-largest crop after wheat and maize, so the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) is developing new transgenic strains of rice incorporating a gene from the weed thale cress to make them more drought-resistant.

A team at Japan's RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) has used a genetic matching technique to overcome the problems of rejection and the use of immunosuppressant drugs when transplanting retinal pigment cells derived from the stem cells of one monkey into the eyes of other monkeys.

Four new elements recently added to the periodic table have finally been given names suitable to their discovery and scientific field of relevance. Now the final decision as to whether these names become permanent has been opened to pubic comment.

There's been a lot of talk about the most eco-friendly ways to generate electric power, and now researchers from RIKEN may have just figured out the most natural way of all – straight from a fish known as an electric ray or torpedo fish.

Researchers at Japan's RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology have created skin tissue complete with sebaceous glands as well as hair follicles. They started with mouse gums.​

Time to re-write the textbooks. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has confirmed the existence of four new elements with the atomic numbers 113, 115, 117, and 118.

A team of scientists in Japan is working on growing multiple, fully-functional teeth and implanting them in mice.