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2026.03.17

2026

2026/03/17

Discovery of All Five Nucleobases in Asteroid Ryugu —The building blocks of DNA and RNA are universally present in two carbonaceous asteroids—

2025

2025/01/30

Life’s building blocks in Bennu samples [Hokkaido University]

2024

2024/11/11

Diverse diets of civets in Borneo rainforest allow them to live in same geographical area [Hiroshima University]

2024/09/05

Breunnerite grain and magnesium isotope chemistry reveal cation partitioning during aqueous alteration of asteroid Ryugu

2024/07/10

Evidence of aqueous alteration and ongoing molecular evolution in the asteroid Ryugu: abiotic precursor of amino acids and nucleobases

2023

2023/12/06

New proxy for integrating biodiversity and food-web structure ―Revolutionary observation on ecosystems using iTP―

2023/09/18

Discovery of primordial "salts" and organic sulfur molecules in the asteroid Ryugu

2023/08/24

Elucidation of the mechanism that allows deep-sea mussels to sustain the microorganisms that provide them with nutrients within their cells: How can deep sea mussels live without eating anything?

2023/02/24

Asteroid Explorer Hayabusa2 Initial Analysis: Soluble Organic Matter (SOM) Team reveals organic molecule compositions in samples of asteroid Ryugu [JAXA]

2022

2022/10/21

World’s first asteroid gas sample delivered by the Hayabusa2 mission: A treasure box from Ryugu [JAXA]

2022/10/21

Noble gases and nitrogen in samples from asteroid Ryugu record volatile sources and recent surface evolution [JAXA]

2022/06/15

Identification of molecular species of deep gas seeping from fault lake at plate boundary, and elucidation of its contribution to carbon cycle ―Understanding the mystery of the big hole that appears in lake ice during midwinter season―

2022/02/11

Pebbles flying over Ryugu and returned grains [JAXA]

2022/02/04

A Method to Decipher the Life History of Fish from its Eyeballs Recorded since its Juvenile Stage

2021

2021/03/30

A large number of plastic debris were found on the Boso Peninsula seafloor at a depth of approximately 6,000 m ―Going to the deep-sea in search of missing plastic―

2021/01/25

Discovery of a Colossal “Yokozuna” Slickhead: An Active-Swimming Top Predator in the Deep Waters of Suruga Bay

2021/01/13

Ongoing biological methanogenesis by archaea in iodine-rich deep aquifer around Mobara, southern Kanto region

2020

2020/03/25

A memory of long-distance migration engraved on vertebrae of chum salmon ―An unknown migration route revealed by the “Isoscape”

2020/02/13

Untangling the family-lineages of calcifying red algae ―Nanoscale crystals reflect genetic relationships of often overlooked ecosystem building seaweeds.

2020/01/16

Capturing our closest prokaryotic relative reveals insight into the origin of Eukaryotes