Japan’s ‘Minpaku’ – private short-term lodging
The number of foreign visitors to Japan in 2017 hit a new record, exceeding the previous high of over 24 ...
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Sumo, Japan’s national sport
SUMO originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally. It has a history of spanning many centuries. ...
Nudge theory applied in our daily life
The great thing about a good nudge is that a lot of concepts can be applied across the board.
A flying car, no longer a dream
A flying car is no longer only in movies and cartoons. The first production model of a flying car, PAL-V ...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) into psychiatry
In the future, AI might able to predict a person who is contemplating suicide. A new study published in Nature ...
30 minutes house chores a day save lives
A large international study involving more than 130, 000 people from 17 countries published recently in The Lancet (general medical ...
Treasure hunting in the deep sea
The manganese nodule deposits are of interest because they contain greater amounts of some metals than are found in today’s ...
High-tech columbarium
A WHITE, square spaceship-like structure anchored amidst a sea of high-rise buildings in Shinjuku, one of the busiest shopping areas ...
Japan’s futuristic resting place for departed
The Koukokuji Buddhist Temple in downtown Tokyo has 400 years history, but its “Ruriden columbarium” offers a high-tech futuristic resting ...
Wildfires rage in southern Europe
Extreme weather across southern Europe has fueled thousands of small wildfire and a few large blazes in July and August ...
Growing ocean acidity (2)
Due to of the amount of fossil fuels being burned over the past few hundred years, more and more CO2 ...
Research on mammal urination
The findings, released by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, shed light on the mysterious fluid dynamics of ...
Rising sea temperature (2)
The northwestern Pacific produces some of the world’s most intense and most devastating tropical cyclones, called typhoons in the Pacific ...
Rising sea temperature (1)
The Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Queensland in northern Australia, has long been one of the world’s most ...
Kudzu, ‘the vine that ate the South’ (2)
THE vine has completely dominated Georgia, USA, and has reached the north shore of Lake Erie, positioning itself near Leamington, ...
Kudzu, ‘The vine that ate the South’
Here is one of example of non-native species that quickly became an enormous, invasive problem. Kudzu, also known as “mile-a-minute ...