May 2024

WMG at the University of Warwick and Cadbury have used powerful X-ray scanning equipment to uncover the secrets of how the structure of biscuits, which is essential for the perfect ‘crunch’, forms. Biscuits are the UK’s favourite…

The need for sustainable and environment-friendly solutions has accelerated the global demand for green and renewable technologies. In this regard, semiconductor photocatalysts have emerged as an attractive solution, owing to their…

Team Kobayashi, consisting of Architectural Design and other students of Tokyo Tech High School of Science and Technology, have won the Presentation Award at Passionate & Advanced Mission-E: Space Architecture Project, an engineering…

Micelles assemble in water from amphiphilic molecules, composed of hydrophilic and hydrophobic frameworks. They can be found all around us, for example in soaps, detergents, and shampoos. Their main application is the water-solubilization…

President Ji-Beom Yoo of Sungkyunkwan University, together with his delegation, paid a visit to Tokyo Tech on April 10. The representatives of the South Korean university, which has an institutional-level agreement with Tokyo Tech, were…

Methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes significantly towards global warming, is also an important source of energy and an essential chemical resource. When used as a chemical feedstock, methane is typically converted into methanol…

In line with global efforts towards cleaner energy technologies, fuel cells may soon become an indispensable tool for converting chemical energy—stored in the form of hydrogen or other fuels—into electrical energy. Among the various types…

Since cannabidiol (CBD), the non-intoxicating component of cannabis, was legalized in the United States by the 2018 Farm Bill, products containing the compound have flooded the consumer health sector. While there is a single…

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a wearable ultrasound patch that can offer continuous, non-invasive monitoring of blood flow in the brain. The soft and stretchy patch can be comfortably worn on the…

University of California San Diego bioinformatics researcher Vineet Bafna and machine learning and data analysis researcher Mikhail Belkin are among the 68 scientists worldwide named as Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)…