University of Tokyo

Regional differences in the spread of Japan’s two main ancestral groups have been revealed, thanks to new research at the University of Tokyo. Japanese people are generally thought to descend from two main groups: Jomon hunter-gatherers…

For the first time, an international team of researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Solid State Physics, has demonstrated a switch, analogous to a transistor, made from a single molecule called…

Professor Keisuke Goda from the Department of Chemistry in UTokyo’s Graduate School of Science was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).Founded in 1848, AAAS is an interdisciplinary…

The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) and France’s Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) launched a second joint call for proposals between the two institutions in order to develop new promising cooperation.This second joint call…

Every year, the Maison de la Chimie foundation in France awards the Grand Prix prize to a researcher who they believe has furthered the field of chemistry in some significant way. The latest 2022 prize will be shared between Professor…

A new species of microalgae was found in water from a home aquarium. While analyzing DNA samples taken from the algae, researchers from the University of Tokyo discovered Medakamo hakoo, whose DNA sequence didn’t match any on record. This…

A class of nonvolatile memory devices, called MRAM, based on quantum magnetic materials, can offer a thousandfold performance beyond current state-of-the-art memory devices. The materials known as antiferromagnets were previously…

Collaborative research organization launched via bottom-up approachIn July 2022, the University of Tokyo launched a new research organization, the UTokyo Center for Climate Solutions (UTCCS), with aims to promote collaborative research on…

Philosophy in the 21st century must address critical questions that cannot be solved by science alone, through dialogue with science at a time when humans face unprecedented challenges such as health and environmental crises. That was a…

The Department of Architecture and the Department of Civil Engineering of UTokyo’s Graduate School of Engineering jointly held an industry–academia collaborative design studio course on 3D concrete printing (3DCP)* in the summer semester…