Japan's LignoSat aims to mitigate the growing space junk problem, as well as environmental risks associated with atmospheric ...

A new study conducted by researchers from Kyoto University has revealed that chimpanzees perform better on difficult tasks ...

"The plant enzyme that's key to artepillin C production had only recently been discovered by YAZAKI Kazufumi at Kyoto ...

The first-ever wooden satellite, called LignoSat, arrived at the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo ...

The tiny Japanese CubeSat was launched from Florida with the aim of bringing the space industry into a more sustainable ...

LignoSat, developed by Kyoto University and homebuilder Sumitomo Forestry, will be flown to the International Space Station ...

Wooden datacenters? Japan can build spacecraft out of the stuff Japan's wooden satellite has been launched into space aboard ...

Herbal medicine is difficult to produce on an industrial scale. A team of Kobe University bioengineers manipulated the ...

Producing herbal medicines on an industrial scale is challenging. However, a team of bioengineers from Kobe University has ...

An analysis of thousands of cognitive tests carried out by chimpanzees finds that the number of spectators influenced their ...

Study co-author Christen Lin added that while one might not expect a chimp to care if another species watches them performing ...

A University team has modified yeast to produce artepillin C, a plant-derived compound with medicinal benefits, at high ...