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Proteus Marine Renewables has deployed the AR1100 tidal turbine in Japan, which became the country's first ever ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

On 11 March, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake sent a tsunami hurtling towards Japan's east coast, killing 20,000 people, ...

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Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

"If you take the first step, others will follow." Scientist pours his life savings into project many thought was impossible: ...

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Once a driving force behind Japan’s economic growth and a key industry, the textile sector is now referred to as a “declining ...