A national university in Tsukuba, Japan, known for research across science, engineering, and medicine.
Ryuta Kuwamizu's team reports in iScience that young adults' pupils dilated while counting aloud in all three experiments. Silent counting always produced smaller pupil changes, and their direction depended on the task.
Reality
Sukunaarchaeum, a marine archaeon with 189 protein-coding genes, carries genes for copying its DNA and making proteins but almost none for food or energy. That puts it nearer an independent cell than an organelle, though so far the only evidence is its genome.
Reality
A University of Tsukuba team filmed 113 three- to six-year-olds sorting cards while fNIRS recorded their prefrontal cortex, and the children who blinked more often switched rules better, with the association surviving a control for age.
Reality
Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa reached the same wakefulness peptide from opposite directions. The drug class that followed now holds one narcolepsy approval and a much larger set of untested hopes.
Reality
The aggregates are 0.6 mm across and their blood vessel networks are primitive, which is why the team calls this a proof of concept for tissue engineering rather than a route to cultivated steak. Cost is the other reason.
Reality
The prototype turns 86C of Joule heat into a 12.9 K swing in the refrigerant film and 4.0 K across the assembled device, while a 130C external source held 2.2 K. Where the rest of the span goes decides whether this scales.
Reality
A Japanese team says it found the first premaxilla known from any Japanese mosasaur inside rock collected in the early 1990s. The report is a conference presentation, not a described species.
Reality