Fukushima data show rise and fall in food radioactivity
Giant database captures fluctuating radioactivity levels in vegetables, fruit, meat and tea. Source: www.nature.com See on Scoop.it – Dernières nouvelles
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Marmosets are stars of Japan’s ambitious brain project
Ten-year brain-mapping effort will use monkeys to study human neural and mental disorders. Source: www.nature.com See on Scoop.it – Dernières nouvelles
Ig Nobel prizes provide fun fodder
In honour of the winners of this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes, researchers on social media buzzed about holy images on toast, medical uses for bacon, the slipperiness of banana skins and other offbeat works...
Scientific misconduct: Research integrity guidelines in Japan : Nature
It is to be hoped that Japan’s new guidelines for research integrity, released recently by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), will curb research misconduct (see T. Tanimoto et al....
Prevalence of viscoelastic relaxation after the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake : Nature
After a large subduction earthquake, crustal deformation continues to occur, with a complex pattern of evolution. This postseismic deformation is due primarily to viscoelastic relaxation of stresses induced by the earthquake rupture and continuing...