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Making Babies in Space May Be Difficult
Some animals have been bred in space, but not mammals. Japanese researchers are looking into the possibility, and doing experiments with mice on earth that mimic lower gravity space conditions. To test...
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Swimming Endoscope
Endoscopic surgery has used tubes for years, but now Japanese researchers have built a probe that can swim through the digestive tract: The device, nicknamed the “Mermaid”, is about one centimetre (0.4...
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Transparent Skin Developed By Japanese Researchers
If you want to show the world what you’re REALLY made of, guts and all, then your wait is almost over. Thanks to Japanese researchers from RIKEN, biological tissue can be turned transparent via...
View Article‘Silence gun’ developed in Japan
Japanese researchers have come up with a gun that forces anyone that it is used on in to silence. The device is based on the concept of delayed audito…
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Weak and Feeble Robots Make The Best Teachers
The secret to learning from a robot, as discovered by two Japanese researchers, is to have it appear weak and feeble: Shizuko Matsuzoe and Fumihide Tanaka at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, set up an...
View ArticleSpeech jamming device wins Ig Nobel Prize
Two Japanese researchers have invented a device that can stop even the most ardent chatterbox. Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada’s creation has been …
View ArticleIs too much praise a good or a bad thing ?
Japanese researchers have claimed that praise is as good as money at making people work harder. It’s something that has been debated amongst scientist…
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