Japan's first national university, where neutrino observatories, asteroid samples and genome archives anchor one of Asia's great research enterprises.
Data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe reveal a reversal in the rotation of magnetic fields inside solar wind turbulence, giving unexpected shape to plasma long treated as unstructured.
University of Tokyo chemists unveil CYAN, a machine-learning approach that extracts reaction kinetics from the ordinary optimisation data synthetic chemists already collect.
A deep learning system that combines genomics, blood tests and evolving treatment records predicts remaining survival for myeloma patients well beyond the moment of diagnosis.
Kavli IPMU astronomers find candidate pairs of little red dots in James Webb Space Telescope images, suggesting mergers helped build the first supermassive black holes.
Whole-genome analysis of 42 ancient Jomon individuals traces their ancestry to the coldest phase of the last Ice Age and uncovers genetic signatures of adaptation to extreme cold.
By cooling a laser-trapped nanoparticle close to its quantum ground state, Tokyo physicists built an accelerometer roughly a hundred times more sensitive than conventional approaches.
A global analysis resolves a long-standing paradox: classic fault theory says low-angle plate boundaries should not host giant earthquakes, yet the data show they do.
Museum specimens reveal that two unrelated snail species independently evolved shells whose patterns vanish when wet, matching dry and rain-darkened bark alike.
DNA locked in the dental calculus of historical Japanese skeletons reveals how diet, region and cultural practice shaped the oral microbiome across centuries.
The first measurements of iron stable isotope ratios in individual zooplankton species show that bulk net samples have been masking how the ocean's iron cycle really works.
A non-volatile device based on the antiferromagnet Mn3Sn rewrites its magnetic state in 40 picoseconds at ultralow power, pointing to faster and cooler computing.
Researchers resolve the architecture of the helicase-primase complex that herpes simplex virus uses to copy its DNA, and reveal how an approved antiviral locks it down.
Simultaneous ultrafast X-ray absorption and diffraction capture every stage of a light-induced phase transition, revealing the polaron that cradles the new phase into being.
Pulverising PET in a bead mill cleaves its chemical bonds, letting the ubiquitous plastic be broken back into raw materials at just 90 degrees Celsius.
In mice, whether living alone improves or degrades sleep depends on social rank and genetic background, a result with provocative implications for studying loneliness.
Light-activated fullerenes can hyperpolarise nuclei for sharper MRI, sidestepping the cryogenic machinery that has kept the technique out of routine clinical reach.
Analysis of Fermi telescope data reveals a halo of 20 gigaelectronvolt photons towards the galactic centre whose spectrum matches annihilating dark matter particles.
The first quantitative estimate of how marine plant life influences the Pacific's great climate oscillation finds phytoplankton damping El Nino amplitude by about 40 percent.