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East Japan Railway Company and the University of Tokyo teamed up in October 2023 to create the Planetary Health Design Laboratory (PHD Lab.) in an effort to improve the health of the planet. Maruha Nichiro Corporation joins this partnership…

Researchers have developed a new technique to view living mammalian cells. The team used a powerful laser, called a soft X-ray free electron laser, to emit ultrafast pulses of illumination at the speed of femtoseconds, or quadrillionths…

The stress of heart failure is remembered by the body and appears to lead to recurrent failure, along with other related health issues, according to new research. Researchers have found that heart failure leaves a “stress memory” in the…

Tokyo Tech's Student Initiative Support Services, an arm of the Student Success Support Section within the Student Support Center, hosted the 17th Student Support Forum at Hisao & Hiroko Taki Plaza on Ookayama Campus on February 29.…

Emeritus Professor/Specially Appointed Professor Fumio Koyama of the Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology was awarded the 4th Hirose Award from Hirose Foundation. The award ceremony and commemorative lecture took…

In the world around us, a quiet but very important evolution has been taking place in engineering over the last decades. As technology evolves, it becomes increasingly clear that building devices that are physically as close as possible to…

When Keisuke Matsufuji was a second-year student at the University of Tokyo several years ago, he realized how far Japan lagged behind other industrialized countries in fully utilizing solar and other forms of renewable energy. “I wanted…

The University of Tokyo became the first Japanese university to join the AI-RAN Alliance as one of the founding members on 20 April 2024. The launch of the AI-RAN Alliance was announced in February 2024 by Amazon Web Services, Inc.…

How do planets form? How do galaxies evolve? And ultimately, how did the universe itself begin? A unique astronomical observatory that researchers hope will unravel some of the biggest mysteries out there marks its opening on April 30,…

The day a male spear squid hatches determines which mating tactic he will use throughout his life, according to new research. Spear squid (Heterololigo bleekeri) that hatch earlier in the season become “consorts” which fight for mating…