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Starlink satellites become a giant scanner for Earth's upper atmosphere
More than 1,200 Starlink satellites are now doing double duty as a giant scanner for Earth's upper atmosphere.
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Social Media Photos Reveal New Wasp Species in Japan
A tiny wasp that no scientist had ever documented in Japan turned up first in casual photos posted online. The
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Giant Octopuses Ruled Ancient Oceans as Top Predators
Giant octopuses once sat at the top of the ocean food chain, long before sharks and whales took over that role
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Japan's Kikai supervolcano shows signs of fresh magma recharge
The supervolcano that produced the largest eruption in the last 11,700 years is filling with fresh magma again
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Sulfur compound may help aging muscles repair themselves
A sulfur based molecule may give aging muscles a second wind. Scientists in Japan have identified a compound t
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New Giant Salamander Species Found in 3.5 Million Year Old Japanese Fossils
Three fossilized vertebrae sat in a Japanese collection for more than two decades before scientists realized t
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Japan's Hayabusa2 aims to prove it can deflect an asteroid
Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft, which already pulled off a historic sample return from a distant asteroid, is no
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Human Sperm Grown Inside a Mouse Kidney in Lab Breakthrough
A team of scientists in Japan has grown immature human sperm from stem cells by nurturing them inside a living
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AI cracks the code behind water's strangest behavior
Water expands when it freezes, a quirk that makes it an outlier among liquids. Now scientists in Japan have us
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Japan tags bears with microchips to track rising populations
A Japanese prefecture has started implanting microchips in bears to track their movements as encounters with h
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Deep sea drilling reveals why Japan's 2011 tsunami was so massive
A thin, slippery layer of ancient clay hidden beneath the Pacific Ocean allowed Japan's 2011 earthquake to rup
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Fridge-Sized Japanese Probe Flies Near Asteroid in Defense Test
A Japanese space probe the size of a household refrigerator has flown within a few kilometers of a distant ast
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Japanese Scientists Power New Era of Cosmic Discovery at Rubin Observatory
The world's largest astronomical imaging survey just went live, and more than 80 researchers from Japan are al
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Planting Trees to Help Birds Can Backfire, Japan Study Finds
Planting trees along farmland to protect crops from wind can actually drive away many bird species, a new stud
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DNA Reveals Japan’s First New Bird Species in 40 Years
A bird that scientists thought was one rare species in Japan has turned out to be two. The discovery came not
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Lost Hiroshima Survivor Memoir Found in US Archive After 80 Years
A 230-page memoir written by a Hiroshima survivor in 1947 has been sitting in a US archive for decades, unseen
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Japanese City Captures Black Bear After Multi Day Hunt
A black bear that had been roaming the streets of a Japanese city for days was finally captured after a multi
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