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Who’s in the running to be Japan’s next prime minister?

Japan’s governing party is choosing a new leader in a race analysts say is more unpredictable than usual.

Al Jazeera

Self-healing 'living skin' can make robots more humanlike — and it looks just as creepy as you'd expect

A combination of cultured cells and silicone could help robots appear more human in future thanks to realistic skin elasticity. And they can smile like us too.

LiveScience

Japanese architect Maki, credited with fusing East with West, has died at age 95

Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, who won the prestigious Pritzker Prize for designs praised as smartly and artfully fusing the East with the West, has died

The Independent UK

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Villa near Mount Vesuvius may be where Augustus, Rome's 1st emperor, died

Researchers say a villa buried by the eruption in A.D. 79 corresponds with records of the Roman emperor's death in A.D. 14.

LiveScience

Rapidus to Develop 1nm Process Technology With Leti and the University of Tokyo

Rapidus expands collaboration to develop its 1nm – 1.4nm process technologies.

Tom’s Hardware

Underwater volcanic eruption gives birth to new island in the Pacific

A volcanic eruption off the Japanese island of Iwo Jima on Oct. 30 led to the formation of a new 330-foot-wide island just north of the explosion site.

LiveScience

The scientists in Japan who scared flies to understand fear

Masato Tsuji, a professor at the University of Tokyo, studies fear in flies by showing them horror movies. His research may provide clues to treat psychiatric diseases stemming from exaggerated fear, like phobias and anxiety disorders. By manipulating and recording the activity of neurons of fruit flies, they found that…

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Chinese billionaire Jack Ma teaches first class at University of Tokyo as top exec at his tech empire insists he’s ‘alive’ and ‘happy’

The Alibaba cofounder has largely disappeared from public view since criticizing Chinese regulators in 2020.

Fortune

UChicago partners with Google, IBM and University of Tokyo to develop quantum supercomputer and workforce

The University of Chicago has formed a partnership with Google, IBM and the University of Tokyo to develop a supercomputer powered by quantum technology.

Chicago Tribune

Alibaba founder Jack Ma takes up Tokyo University visiting professorship

Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma has been invited to be a visiting professor at Tokyo College, a new organization run by the University of Tokyo, the university said on Monday.

Reuters

New scans help scientists understand true nature of ancient ‘monster’

‘Tullimonstrum gregarium’ first discovered by amateur fossil hunter Francis Tully in 1958

The Independent UK

Clinical tests to begin on drugs for familial Alzheimer's disease

A team of researchers from Niigata University and the University of Tokyo will begin clinical tests this year of medicines to treat people with familial Alzheimer's disease.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Japan's Kenzaburo Oe, a Nobel-winning author of poetic fiction, dies at 88

Oe's works, including The Catch and A Personal Matter, were built from his childhood memories during Japan's postwar occupation and from being the parent of a disabled son.

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Japan’s Kenzaburo Oe, awarded Nobel for poetic fiction, dies

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