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Debris from the devastating tsunami that hit Japan on March 11 has turned up exactly where scientists predicted it would after months of floating across the Pacific Ocean. Finding and confirming where the debris ended up gives them a better idea of where it's headed next. The magnitude 9.0 quake and ensuing tsunami that struck off the coast of Tohoku in Japanwas so

In the developing field of spintronics, physicists are designing devices to transmit data using the inherent axial rotation, or spin, of electrons rather than their charge as is used in electronics. Weak coupling of electron spin to electrical currents, however, makes gaining this level of control difficult

By Shinichi Saoshiro TOKYO, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Japan should be less conservative [More]

Anyone can be a tour guide--and redefine the term while they're at it--with this Japanese travel startup. Tatsuo Sato got the idea for his startup, Shiroube , during a trip to Eastern Europe. While in Belarus, Sato made a sort of barter arrangement with a local student.

Every so often news breaks and stops everyone dead in their tracks. When a story is big enough, it literally invades our lives. My friend and angel investor Eghosa Omoigui sees it this way: "News is the only industry that's inherently interventional.

No, that's not the setup to a joke. Google, YouTube, Lenovo, Space Adventures, NASA, ESA, and JAXA are pulling science and tech education into the spotlight yet again, hosting a global science fair with prizes that are, quite literally, out of this world.

The U.S. notoriously lags other countries when it comes to Internet speed. One recent report from Web analyst Akamai Technologies puts us in 14th place, far behind front-runner South Korea and also trailing Hong Kong, Japan and Romania, among other countries.

Netflix Abandons Qwikster, Will Keep DVDs . Netflix will keep its DVD mailing business after all, company CEO Reed Hastings has revealed in a blog post . In August, Netflix announced

By Declan Butler of Nature magazine How much radiation is 'unsafe' for humans? For those exposed to fallout from the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the question is all too real. [More]

Conductors of electrical current, including copper, heat up and limit the ability to increase circuit densities. Unusual materials that exhibit the so-called ‘quantum spin Hall effect’, in which current can flow without dissipating heat, could provide an alternative to conventional metals.

By Yoko Kubota TOKYO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Japan will let children and [More]

As I’ve mentioned before , I’m a fan of nuclear energy. I was able to get an inside look at the current state of the nuclear industry from a friend at Qualitech Solutions named Chris Sewell

Tohoku University, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) announced on August 22, 2011 that Kenichi Uchida, a PhD student, and Professor Eiji Saitoh of Tohoku University and their colleagues have succeeded in injecting spin current into a magnetic material by acoustic wave spin pumping.

By usan Moran of Nature magazine Nitrate levels in the waters off China, Japan and the Korean Peninsula are soaring, according to a 30-year study published in Science today. [More]

Study from Japan provides more evidence that diabetes can