Tokyo also looks to send more young scholars overseas
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Council for Science, Technology and Innovation meeting July 10. © Kyodo
TOKYO — Japan will award larger research fellowship grants as part of a government target set Friday to produce 20,000 Ph.D degree holders yearly by fiscal 2030.
Terrestrial planets experience landslides in spades, and so do some moons, asteroids and comets. But — until now — they’ve never been definitively spotted on Pluto, even though the icy world has all the ingredients necessary for their formation. Images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft reveal six large landslides on the dwarf planet, researchers…
After a long time of work, I'm making my master's thesis project public: a CUDA-accelerated numerical relativity raytracer for Schwarzschild black holes that compares seven different integration methods, including two novel integrators I derived specifically for this problem. My thesis was inspired by some of the results in the Nasa, Orbits, Flight Book 1963 What…
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Since 2008, rules requiring ships to slow down to avoid collisions with North Atlantic right whales have reduced fatalities of the critically endangered animals. Now, NOAA is calling the regulations into question, raising concerns for the mammals’ future Olivia Ferrari | Correspondent June 26, 2026 A North Atlantic right whale swims with dolphins around its…
The Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s latest exhibit, “From These Lands,” connects visitors with America’s natural history.
Imperial College London hosted the NVIDIA UK Physical AI & Robotics Roundtable on Tuesday, June 9, positioning the event as a key component of London Tech Week and a focal point for the future of robotics. Co-chaired by Kanishka Narayan, Minister for AI and Online Safety, and Rev Lebaredian, Vice President of Physical AI Simulation…