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A Mathematical Approach To Virus Classification
New research supports a structure-based classification system for viruses which could help in the identification and treatment of emerging viruses like Zika.
Making Swimming Less Of A Drag
Researchers in Japan have developed a method for accurately determining drag during different swimming strokes.
TSUBAME3.01 Set To Be Japan’s Largest Supercomputer
Equipped with over 2,000 of the latest NVIDIA GPUs, TSUBAME3.0 will give Japan an additional 47.2 petaFLOPS of supercomputing power.
Seeing Saturn Through The Seasons
The Subaru Telescope has produced the highest resolution ground-based views ever made of Saturn’s rings.
Soft, But Stronger Than Steel
By combining soft hydrogels with a woven glass fiber fabric, researchers have made a highly flexible composite material that is tougher than steel.
Smashing Silicon To Make Lithium Batteries
Pulverized waste silicon be recycled into a high-performance anode material for lithium-ion batteries.
Yoshinori Ohsumi To Receive Japan’s Order Of Culture
Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi is the 385th person to be awarded the Order of Culture, Japan's highest cultural honor.
Sugar-Coated Catalysts That Work In Live Mice
Carbohydrate structures called glycans could help researchers send metal catalysts to specific tissues without the need for time-consuming antibody development.
Seeing The World Through Fresh (Zebrafish) Eyes
Using imaging and bioengineering techniques, scientists were able to observe how the eyes develop in live zebrafish embryos.
