Just as clothes are made to match a person’s body size, tailor-made medicine conducts diagnosis and treatment matched to the genetic information of the individual patient. The effectiveness and side ...[more]

Often referred to as an “artificial tongue,” this sensor is a taste recognition instrument that can mimic the human tongue and digitize tastes. Professor Kiyoshi Toko and his colleagues at Kyushu ...[more]

COP 13, formally called the 13th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, was held in December 2007 on the island of Bali in Indonesia. Delegates ...[more]

Three-dimensional TVs use a variety of methods to reproduce three-dimensional images. Conventional systems use the differences in color and light waves to give the appearance of three dimensions ...[more]

This is a 15.1-kilometer bridge and tunnel connecting the cities of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture and Kisarazu in Chiba Prefecture. It is also called the Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway. About 5 km of the ...[more]

This plan, promoted by the Tokyo metropolitan government, seeks to develop ubiquitous environments for the sharing of information by linking the functions of computers and portable devices in ...[more]

Touch sensors are devices that can scientifically recognize the sense of touch felt by human skin, including the dryness of hair and smoothness of skin. Research on touch sensors is being advanced ...[more]