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Pale blue (tansei) is the color of the ocean. It is also the color of the atmosphere. Climate variability takes place where these two shades of blue overlap. In climate variability, the ocean and atmosphere play leading roles as two…

A joint conference was held online for faculty and students from the University of Tokyo and National Taiwan University. As one of the main projects in the exchange between them, the two universities have hosted joint conferences…

Researchers in Japan used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of secondary school students during a task focused on musical observation. They found that students trained to play music from a young age exhibited certain kinds of…

How should we deal with the anxiety many people feel due to the dramatic scientific advances of recent years, which at the same time have brought us tremendous benefits? That was the main theme of Tokyo Forum 2021, held online on Dec.…

The year 2021 marks the first year of the U.N. Decade of Ocean Science (UNDOS). This is a plan for the world to concentrate on promoting ocean science in order to solve various problems by 2030. Professor Yutaka Michida, who served as…

President Fujii said he was deeply inspired watching Apollo 11 touch down on the Moon on TV when he was a child. While exploration of the Moon has progressed since then, he became fascinated with another “unknown” world, that of the deep…

During an interview held online on a rainy day in late October, Associate Professor Shinichiro Kumagaya of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology described how hard it is for him to go to campus on a day like this.…

How should we deal with the anxiety many people feel due to the dramatic scientific advances of recent years, which at the same time have brought us tremendous benefits? That was the main theme of Tokyo Forum 2021, held online on December…

Different family systems around the world developed due to a predictable pattern of environmental and social pressures, according to a newly designed mathematical model incorporating decades of results from anthropologists, demographers…

Engineer ReyesTatsuru Shiroku became interested in robots as a junior high school student, around 2005. Fifteen years later, he harnessed his expertise in robotics hardware and software to establish a startup, ARAV Co., Ltd., and, as CEO,…