This is a biometrics technology to identify individuals by analyzing and matching images of the human face. In addition to current uses in identification of mobile phone owners and under-aged people ...[more]

This hormone, which induces flowering in plants, is also called florigen. In April 2007 a research group led by Professor Ko Shimamoto at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology succeeded for ...[more]

Formally called the Ministerial Meeting of the Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy, and Sustainable Development, the conference was first held in Britain in 2005, Mexico in 2006, ...[more]

The Fujita Scale has been adopted worldwide as a numerical indicator of the size of tornadoes. It was devised by the late Tetsuya Fujita, a meteorologist known as “Dr. Tornado.” The size of ...[more]

The Fukutoshin Line is a new subway line in the Tokyo Metro system that connects the city of Wako in Saitama Prefecture with Shibuya Station in Tokyo. It was opened on June 14, 2008. The new line ...[more]