Warming seas and shifting currents are disrupting fisheries, ecosystems and centuries-old food traditions across Japan’s ...

The world’s first wooden satellite has just been sent into space, and it could be a game changer. Japanese scientists have spent years developing a cube-shaped satellite that swaps metal for timber, ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a new photocatalyst that can use a much broader range of sunlight to produce hydrogen, ...

In a world-first clinical trial, Japanese scientists have successfully implanted lab-grown brain cells into Parkinson’s disease patients — and early results suggest the treatment may actually work. If ...

A group of researchers in Japan have made quite the breakthrough. According to a new study published in the Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, these scientists have created solar-powered ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...

NEW YORK -- Like a busy city, a cell works better if it can dispose of and recycle its garbage. Now a Japanese scientist has won the Nobel Prize in medicine for showing how that happens. The research ...

Japanese scientists build stretchable organic solar cell with 14.2% efficiency Researchers in Japan have built a stretchable organic solar cell than can ensure high efficiency levels while preventing ...

Somehow this feels like a Vonnegut plotline: population boom equals food shortage. Solution? Synthesize food from human waste matter. Absurd yes, but Japanese scientists have actually discovered a way ...

Associated Press WriterAKRON, Ohio (AP) -- A Japanese scientist pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying to the FBI about the alleged theft of research materials from the Cleveland Clinic. Hiroaki Serizawa, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese scientists said on Monday they will start clinical trials next month on a treatment for Parkinson's disease, transplanting "reprogrammed" stem cells into brains, seeking a ...

The world’s first wooden satellite has just been sent into space, and it could be a game changer. A group of researchers at Japan’s Kyoto University conceptualized LignoSat, as the cube is known, in ...