Science Tokyo researchers found a junction-free photocurrent in CuCrP2S6 that ran about 1.5 times stronger once the crystal turned symmetric on average. That widens the search for materials not bound by the roughly 33% single-junction limit, though so far the evidence is laser-lit photocurrent in one crystal.
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Researchers led by Frank Postberg found sharply different salt mixtures across 961 Cassini spectra of salty Enceladus grains. Tokyo freezing experiments suggest each grain is a shard of a slowly frozen droplet, so the ocean's makeup shows in how often each salt appears.
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Institute of Science Tokyo chemists used light at 90 degrees to show that a helicity-dependent photocurrent in 2D perovskites comes from the crystal bulk. Mirror-image crystals reportedly send the current the other way, so molecular handedness can set its direction.
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Tohoku University researchers and colleagues modelled early Mars's formaldehyde rain, putting about 10 times the global average on Tharsis and Elysium. The prediction links where a raw material for sugars and amino acids landed to the planet's ancient water cycle.
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Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo found that mutating one residue, Leu776, in TMEM63B's tail leaves the scramblase active without any membrane cue. The tail normally works as a brake, and earlier studies had linked disease-associated TMEM63B mutations to neurodegeneration.
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Institute of Science Tokyo researchers found that salts separate inside 200-micrometre lab droplets frozen at about 10 K a minute or slower. Slow freezing in the vents could explain Cassini's oddly varied Enceladus grains, though the droplets held salts and organics remain untested.
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Reported in PNAS, the CLSS model reproduces relationships from the expert-curated ECOD and CATH classifications it never saw in training, and it can place short protein fragments beside complete sequences and structures.
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Fukuhara's group at Kyushu pressurized a deep-sea rhodopsin and a land-dwelling one in the same rig, and only the deep-sea protein came back with its light absorption intact. Trimer formation is the proposed reason.
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A Science Tokyo group read the same BiFeO3 nanodots with a polarization microscope and a magnetic one, and watched the polarization pattern turn inside out as the magnetization flipped. That is the condition voltage-written magnetic memory had to meet.
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Thin films dump their heat into the substrate, which is why the thermal half of resistive switching stayed hidden. A Tokyo University of Science team hung an organic crystal in helium gas instead and measured its insides.
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A degree at each end of the channel decides which blood fractions come out where. The fixed critical diameter that has defined deterministic lateral displacement becomes a setpoint.
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An Institute of Science Tokyo team chained an enzyme to molecular motors to build DNA networks on a surface. Pull the ATP and nothing assembles, but the energy bill is still unwritten.
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An Open Archaeology study measured Ogame jar outlines with Fourier analysis and a Random Forest classifier. The method is auditable; the chronology it produces is still borrowed.
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Science Tokyo's group put a voltage across iron hydride at up to 110 gigapascals and watched hydrogen migrate. By their own numbers it would travel 0.1 micrometres in 10,000 years.
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A Science Tokyo team reports singlet exciton transport more than an order of magnitude past the 5-20 nm norm for organic semiconductors. The plasmonic bonus depends on how the fibers are laid down.
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