研究者・留学生向け英文メールニュース 「Tokyo Tech Bulletin No. 56」を配信

Tokyo Tech-led study shows how icy outer solar system satellites may have formed

Scientists use sophisticated computer simulations and observations of Trans-Neptunian Objects to understand the formation of the solar system.

ELSI Researchers Use Biological Evolution to Inspire Machine Learning

A research team led by Nicholas Guttenberg and Nathaniel Virgo of ELSI at Tokyo Tech, and Alexandra Penn of CECAN, University of Surrey UK (CRESS), examine the connection between biological evolutionary open-endedness and recent studies in machine learning.

Press seminar held on new functional multimetallic clusters created through the precise combination of metal elements

Image of metal atom in a cluster observed through a Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) released.

A metal-free, sustainable approach to CO₂ reduction

Researchers in Japan present an organic catalyst for carbon dioxide (CO₂) reduction that is inexpensive, readily available and recyclable. It could open up many new directions for converting CO₂ to industrially useful organic compounds.

A rapid, easy-to-use DNA amplification method at 37°C

Study could advance molecular diagnosis and robotics.

Oxygen shapes arms and legs: origins of a new developmental mechanism called "interdigital cell death"

This work gives an interesting example of how novel strategies to shape the body parts may appear during development, linking ecology and evolution of the limb shape.

Uncovering the hidden history of a giant asteroid

A Tokyo Tech research team, Japan's National Institute of Polar Research and ETH Zürich, deepens our understanding of protoplanet formation more than 4.5 billion years ago, in the early infancy of the Solar System.

Gas insulation could be protecting an ocean inside Pluto

Joint press release by Hokkaido University, Earth-Life Science Institute at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokushima University, Osaka University and Kobe University.

The Whole History of the Earth and Life - Movie by Hadean Bioscience Project

The Hadean Bioscience project team collaborated with CG creator, Mr. Hiromitsu Kohsaka (LiVE Company Ltd.) to produce a series of movies called "The Whole History of the Earth and Life".