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RIKEN

Riken, formerly Rikagaku Kenkyusho, is one of Japan’s leading research institutes. Initially established as a private research foundation in Tokyo in 1917, Riken became an independent administrative institution in 2003. Researchers at Riken conduct basic and applied experimental research in a wide range of science and technology fields, including physics, chemistry, medical science, biology, and engineering. Riken's President is Ryoji Noyori was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2001 for Chemistry.

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The write stuff: Scallop shells recycled as chalkmore

for the garbage heap into high-quality chalk that has brightened classroom blackboards in Japan and South Korea.

Synthetic life zaps 'the soul'more

and the response from Japanese scientists. Thanks to the Science Media Center of Japan for providing these...

Fujitsu Aims for $1 Billion in Sales of Supercomputers by 2015more

information technology world, what F1 racing is to automakers, said Makoto Taiji, a computer- science professor at...

New director takes chargemore

initiative launched by the Centre for Bioinformatics. Prior to this assignment, Dr. Dhar was a senior scientist with...

State must ease stem-cell curbs, scientists saymore

research and is demanding the red tape be reformed. The group of researchers at Kyoto University and the Riken research...

Vietnamese physicist thrives in Japanmore

The Soviet-trained Vietnamese nuclear physicist and painter first came to live here in 1995 at the invitation of Riken,...

Science budget cuts slammedmore

spending] continue,' one of them said. Noyori, 71, who won the Nobel Prize in 2001, is president of Riken physical and...

Govt to review supercomputer budget freeze / Kan backpedals after scie...more

Nov. 13, the unit said the budget allocated to the supercomputer development project, which is conducted primarily by...

Japan may back out of fastest-supercomputer projectmore

wasteful spending, recommended on Friday to freeze spending on the project. The Institute of Physical and Chemical...

5 Top Stocks at Half Pricemore

I would love to see another multi system sale announcement like the one we recently learned of from RIKEN in Japan.

Govt panel axes supercomputer budgetmore

budget for fiscal 2010 for the supercomputer project, which is under way at the government-funded science research...

Supercomputer project faces freezemore

cutting wasteful spending sought Friday to freeze a supercomputer project with a proposed budget of ¥26.7 billion.

TABLE-Asaka Riken <5724.Q>-2008/09 parent resultsmore

Nov 13 (Reuters) - ASAKA RIKEN CO LTD PARENT-ONLY FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS (in billions of yen unless specified) Year ended...

Japan's freeze on supercomputers marks end of eramore

$300 million) budget to build the world's fastest supercomputer at stateaffiliated Institute of Physical and Chemical...

Sankyo Rikagaku <5383.Q>-6-month parent forecastmore

Nov 2 (Reuters) - SANKYO RIKAGAKU CO LTD PARENT-ONLY EARNINGS ESTIMATES (in billions of yen unless specified) 6 months...

Japanese method for treating blood cancersmore

possible in the near future, according to Yukio Nakamura, stem cell scientist and head of bio resources centre, Riken...

Q3 2009 Honeywell Earnings Releasemore

Johnson Controls, Motorola, Schneider, Siemens, United Technologies, Yamatake, Bosch, Draeger, GE, Intermec...

OLEDs Could be as Cheap as Newspaper to Producemore

screens are the future--if scientists can figure out how to produce them cheaply enough. Researchers at Japan's RIKEN...

Controlling the Number and Positions of Oligonucleotides on Gold Nanop...more

We describe a new method to immobilize a given number of oligonucleotides (ODNs) on gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) in a...

RIKEN Next-Generation Supercomputermore

RIKEN Integrated Cluster of Clusters (RICC) is the name of the new system. It is a complex system, comprised of three...

From flossing to . . . philosophy?more

ultrahygienic and clean. What else can they do? Atsushi Iriki, of the Saitama Prefecture-based Brain Science Institute...

Sense of attractionmore

Researchers identify a population of olfactory sensory neurons that is responsible for zebrafish attraction towards...

Fujitsu to build Japan's next-generation supercomputermore

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Japan’s Next-Generation Supercomputer Configuration Is Decidedmore

Fujitsu and Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, known as RIKEN, today announced that RIKEN has decided...

An Important Step Toward Being able to Probe the Dynamics of Electron...more

Scientists at RIKEN have developed a way to measure the wavelike properties of ultrafast (attosecond) light pulses - an...

Top Sources: Riken

  • innovations-report.de
  • rikenresearch.riken.jp
  • arxiv.org
  • New York Times
  • nih.gov
  • azonano.com
  • nsftokyo.org
  • Yomiuri Shimbun
  • BusinessWeek
  • techon.nikkeibp.co.jp

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