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The Japanese ski resort of Niseko draws tourists from across the globe with its towering peaks and legendary powder snow, but far fewer foreign skiers head to lesser-known Shiga Kogen ski area in the centre of the country – Annabel Grossman straps on her skis to try both

I’ve long been fascinated by one of the most stubborn patterns in biology: males and females rarely live the same length of time. In humans, women nearly always outlive men, with an average advantage of about five years worldwide today. This pattern holds across history, from 18th-century Swedes to contemporary…

A special group of immune cells known as regulatory T cells, or Tregs for short, became an overnight sensation when a trio of U.S. and Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Oct. 6, 2025, for their discovery and elucidation of these cells.

An influx of tourists to the Japanese city has caused authorities to increase overnight accommodation taxes