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The rice on your plate may affect blood sugar differently than you think — scientists find black and green varieties contain unusual fats and slower-digesting starch

Researchers discovered diverse lipid molecules within Japanese rice grains. Black and green rice varieties showed unique fat profiles and slower starch digestion. These findings suggest different rice types may influence nutritional properties significantly. Scientists identified previously undetected compounds in rice for the first time. Further studies are needed to confirm…

The Economic Times

Rusutsu Resort to Host Special Session as Part of the Asian Development Bank and Hokkaido University International Financial Conference

TOKYO, June 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Kamori Kanko Co., Ltd. (President & CEO: Hisatake Kamori, hereinafter "Kamori Kanko") and Rusutsu Resort Tech Co., Ltd. (Directors: Shintaro Hirato, Asahi Iwanaga, and Hisatake Kamori, hereinafter "RRT") will jointly host a special session at Rusutsu Resort on July 8, 2026, as part of…

AAP

New fossil discoveries suggest existence of giant ‘kraken’ octopuses as large as lorries

Paleontologists believe these early cephalopods were ‘huge, intelligent’ creatures that crushed prey with their powerful beaks

The Independent UK

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‘Kraken-like’ giant octopuses 100m years ago crunched bones of prey

Study of fossilised beaks shows patterns of wear and suggests some ancient species were up to 19 metres long

The Guardian - UK

'Kraken' octopus that lived at the time of the dinosaurs was a 62-foot-long apex predator of the ocean

A close inspection of 27 fossil jaws from finned octopuses challenge the longstanding belief that the apex oceanic predators of the Cretaceous were all vertebrates.

LiveScience

6,200 meters under the Pacific Ocean: Scientists open black ‘eggs’ and make a shocking discovery

The record for deep-sea biology has been rewritten by a Japanese Research group. During a sampling of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, located in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, researchers from Hokkaido University sampled unusual leathery black cocoons attached to rock samples at a depth of 6200 meters.

The Times of India

Scientists ‘astonished’ as moss survives nine months in space

‘Most living organisms cannot survive even briefly in the vacuum of space,’ says researcher

The Independent UK

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Remember audio tapes from TDK? The company just developed an analog reservoir AI chip that does real-time learning - and will even challenge humans at a game of rock-paper-scissors

TDK unveils an analog reservoir AI chip which learns in real time and can predict rock-paper-scissors moves.

TechRadar

Willie Jones obituary

Other lives: English teacher at Shrewsbury school in Shropshire who emigrated to Japan and taught at Hokkaido University

The Guardian - UK

'Exquisitely preserved' ginormous claws from Mongolia reveal strange evolution in dinosaurs

A new species of dinosaur named Duonychus tsogtbaatari has been discovered by scientists, and unlike other therizinosaurs, this species has only two clawed fingers instead of three.

LiveScience

Hokkaido University delegates visit Mysore Varsity

Delegates from Hokkaido University visit University of Mysore to discuss future actions of MoU for academic collaborations.

The Hindu

Asteroid discovery suggests ingredients for life on Earth came from space

Two organic compounds essential for living organisms have been found in samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu, buttressing the notion that some ingredients crucial for the advent of life arrived on Earth aboard rocks from space billions of years ago.

Reuters

Squid Gains: How Squids Are Advancing Medicine

The manufacturing process begins with commercially available frozen squid mantle. How squids are advancing medicine.

Zenger

Hayabusa samples point to high water content on Ryugu

Samples from the Ryugu asteroid that were collected by the Hayabusa2 space probe contain water, according to a paper by researchers from Hokkaido University, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and other institutions that was published in the academic journal Science.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

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