Circadian Clock Tells Timing for Seasonal Clock

- Fibrate, a hypolipidemic drug, change the seasonal clock in mice -

Development of Wide-band and Ultra-low Noise Receiver in the Terahertz Range

- Milestone for high-precision, general-purpose measuring instruments and remote gas detectors for use in disaster sites -

Speech Search System for Multimedia is Open to Public through the Internet for Verification

- Allows speech search without dictionary, grammar or language restrictions -

Development of Polymer Films that Change Color in Response to Tension

- Easy visualization of mechanical force -

Cyan-free electroless gold plating with high adhesion to various plastic films

A New Rolled Magnesium Alloy with excellent formability at Room Temperature

- Excellent Formability equivalent to that of aluminum alloy -

Development of an optical lattice clock[PDF:367KB]

- Toward the next-generation atomic clock -

Accurate quantification for the environmental pollutants at trace levels[PDF:367KB]

- Accurate quantification using 13C-labeled internal standards -

Accurate measurement of the volume of silicon spheres[PDF:489KB]

- Interferometeric determination of the sphere volume for the redefinition of the kilogram based on an atomic mass -

Development of an efficient tandem type dye-sensitized solar cell[PDF:489KB]

- New architecture of dye-sensitized solar cells for higher conversion efficiency -

A novel and practical method for pressureless sintering of boron carbide[PDF:341KB]

- New process greatly lowers the cost of manufacturing the hardest and lightest engineering ceramics -

Production of thick-film thermoelectric devices using centrifugal force[PDF:341KB]

- One step forward to realization of high-efficiency thermoelectric devices -

Novel manufacturing technology for magnesium alloy sheets[PDF:428KB]

- Full-dry hot pressing technology using a diamond-coated die -

High yield separation of metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotubes[PDF:428KB]

- Quite simple, quick and scalable method -

A new inorganic binder[PDF:256KB]

- Aiming to develop an environment-friendly ceramic process with the binder -

A melt-treatment of asbestos by heating with infrared light[PDF:256KB]

- Possible application to an easy and safe treatment for asbestos on site -

Non-invasive evaluation of arterial stiffness using conventional oscillometric blood pressure measurement[PDF:672KB]

- A simple method for evaluating arterial stiffness -

Porous Ceramics with Fine Micrometer-size Pores Fabricated Using Ice

- Realization of combined ultrahigh porosity and high strength -

Leading a Domestic High-Technology Genome Research with Next Generation Sequencers

- For the coming individual genome age -

Release of Enhanced "Atmospheric Dispersion Model for Exposure and Risk Assessment (ADMER Ver. 2.5)"

- Creation of a map of the atmospheric concentration of chemical substances on Google Earth^TM and faster calculation -