ST. LOUIS, Nov. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SC25—NVIDIA today announced that RIKEN, Japan’s leading national research institute, is integrating NVIDIA GB200 NVL4 systems with two new supercomputers in Japan — one built for AI for science and the ...

Japan's scientific standing has faced a quiet crisis over the past two decades. Although it maintained high absolute research and development spending, Japan's global share of the top 10% of highly cited papers plummeted from fourth in the early 2000s to 12th in 2023.

New findings published in the journal Science help explain why the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan created such a large tsunami. An international team of geologists and geophysicists drilled into the ocean floor, setting a record for the deepest ...

Earlier this month, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) reported that the marine research vessel Xiangyanghong 22 (total length 89.65 meters, gross tonnage 3,381 tons), which belongs to the East China Sea Bureau of the Ministry of Natural Resources of ...

Japan issued a megaquake advisory Tuesday after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the northern part of the country, causing 34 mostly mild injuries and some damage to roads and buildings. The government has estimated that an offshore megaquake could cause ...

A new technique using tree-ring carbon data and historical records uncovered a solar event from 1200–1201 CE, offering insights into past solar activity and improving space weather predictions.

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In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how the iconic cherry trees, which are of enormous cultural and economic significance, are blooming earlier than is the norm, and in some places in Japan they do not bloom fully at all,

Learn how scientists are combining Medieval literature and modern scientific techniques to study space weather.