The RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan, along with colleagues, has shown that the free-energy principle can explain how neural networks are optimized…
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Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and collaborators have shown that they can manipulate single skyrmions—tiny magnetic vortices that could be used…
Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) and collaborators in Japan have discovered particular neurons in the brain that monitor whether predictions made…
Unexpected Diversity in Virus-Derived Sequences in the Human Genome Powerful genetic analysis tools reveal that people exhibit a surprising level of variation in virus-derived genetic…
Figure 1: A photo showing 1,3-butadiene produced from bacteria. Credit: © 2021 Yokohama Rubber Microbes are engineered to convert sugar into a chemical found in…
Genome editing targeting a gene responsible for making body pigments resulted in albino offspring, suggesting that the genetic engineering was successful in marsupials. Credit: RIKEN…
The elevated pup-retrieval test was used to assess the willingness of mice to care for infants in risky/dangerous situations. See the accompanying video for the…
This picture shows the wing imaginal disc of fruit fly. Green cells are live and proliferating cells that express an oncogene Src. Magenta cells are…
An artist’s impression shows two translucent orbs, which represent tin nuclei, colliding and shattering in a shower of colorful shards. Amidst these shards, which represent…
Figure 1: A thin film of cuprous iodide crystals (blue) on an indium arsenide substrate (yellow). The sample’s purity was tested by shining photons onto…
A group led by scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, using coordinated observations of the Crab pulsar in a number of frequencies, have…
A multitasking nanomachine that can act as a heat engine and a refrigerator at the same time has been created by RIKEN engineers. The device…
An artist’s impression of an axion, a hypothetical elementary particle, which has been invoked to explain why charge–parity symmetry is preserved in quantum chromodynamics. They…
Dendritic spines of cortical neurons in layers II and III (left) and layer V (right) in 4-week-old wildtype (top) and FABP4 KO mice (bottom). Like…
Spiders produce amazingly strong and lightweight threads made from silk proteins, which can be used to manufacture useful materials. Researchers succeeded in producing the spider…
Ultrashort laser pulses induce unusual sound waves via a structural instability in a material. RIKEN physicists have initiated unusual sound waves in a flake using…
An artist’s impression of a bound nucleus containing three normal nucleons, which have up and down quarks, and a Xi hyperon (gold sphere at bottom…
Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics and collaborators have discovered that terahertz radiation, contradicting conventional belief, can disrupt proteins in living cells without…
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have identified a new mechanism that helps animals to develop with precise and…
This computer simulation of a supernova shows how matter is ejected from the heart of an exploding star. Credit: © 2020 RIKEN Astrophysical Big Bang…