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  Understanding Radiation
  03 April 2011 12:39 AM | No Comments

  In order to understand what we are being told in the news, we need to know a little about nuclear physics.

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  Meat Judging Competition: International merit awaits
  14 February 2011 2:48 PM | No Comments

  From March 2 to 4 this year, over 50 university students from all over Japan will participate in the third annual Japan Intercollegiate Meat Judging (ICMJ) competition to be held at Tokyo Meat Market in Shinagawa.

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  Can you sleep at night?
  04 October 2010 4:41 PM | No Comments

  Long ago, people lived according to the cycle of the sun. Ancient people woke up as the sun rose, and went to sleep as the sun set. Humans developed something...

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  Sushi gene is found
  03 October 2010 4:05 PM | No Comments

  In an article published in Nature on 8 April 2010, J. H. Hehemann and other researchers reported that marine bacteria which stick to seaweed have transferred their genes to microbes...

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  Chicken cells determine sex by themselves
  17 September 2010 10:24 AM | No Comments

  In vertebrates, it has been thought that the sex of somatic cells—general body cells excluding sperm and ova—is determined by sex hormones, such as testosterone and estrogen, which are secreted...

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  Planting the seeds of curiosity
  01 July 2010 3:40 PM | No Comments

  Take a handful of enthusiastic university students, an interesting topic on everyday science, and a group of eager children, mix them all together and you have Kagaku Asobi Lab, a...

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  The future of food
  22 June 2010 9:38 PM | No Comments

  If nanotechnology in your food sounds futuristic, Dr Dongmyong Kim, Research Professor at Seoul National University and President of the International Nanofood Research Society, would agree. Speaking at the University...

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