Kyoto University researchers found that mice given olive oil 15 minutes before glucose had lower blood sugar at the 15- and 30-minute marks. The result offers a mechanism for meal-sequencing, an approach with human evidence behind it, but it comes from mice only.
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Kyoto University traps baited with female Platycerus stag beetles caught more males toward forest interiors and fewer toward open areas in Hida, Japan. That gradient makes a leaf-bud-eating beetle a candidate habitat gauge for working broadleaf forests, though the pattern has yet to be checked across years and other forests.
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Physicists at Kyoto and Hiroshima universities built an optical circuit that identifies three-photon W states in one shot, with an averaged fidelity of 0.871. That clears the two-thirds benchmark comfortably, though only three photons have been tested so far.
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Kyoto and Hiroshima University physicists built an optical circuit that identifies three-photon W states in a single measurement. If it scales, labs checking larger entangled states could skip tomography, whose data needs grow exponentially with photon number.
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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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Kyoto, Harvard and UCLA researchers find shared noise in up to 21,000 mouse visual cortex neurons slows sensory information growth without capping it. The finding challenges a 30-year-old coding assumption, but beyond the recorded cells it rests on extrapolated power laws.
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A Kyoto and Weizmann team screened 561,000 human-specific regulatory changes in cartilage cells. The survivors were then read inside cells carrying both human and gorilla chromosomes, where glycosaminoglycan genes ran lower on the human copies.
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A Kanazawa-led team used high-speed atomic force microscopy to watch CaMKIIα holoenzymes stay apart in dilute solution and link into chains once they were packed and confined, with activation widening the spacing by about four nanometres.
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The pore volume stayed put while the flow behaviour moved by a factor of 170 million, which is the trade-off that has held these gas-capture fluids back. A process engineer still can't size a loop from what the paper reports, since no capacity figure appears yet.
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Kazuko Hase raised Japanese common toad tadpoles alone or with twenty siblings, then timed which tadpoles they swam toward. Their choices tracked how they had been raised; kinship made no difference.
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Kyoto University's analysis of two grains puts nitrogen chemistry in the last fluid to dry inside Ryugu's parent body, and the team is careful to say it inferred that sequence rather than watched it happen.
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A Kyoto group's silicon carbide JFET holds its switching threshold at 600 C by putting the gate underneath the channel. The payoff sits in geothermal drilling and engine control as much as in any Venus lander.
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The Kyoto-led model says an axion signal should peak in Southeast Asia, but the decade of records came from Britain, and the several unexplained dark photon candidates it also turned up cannot be checked from one station.
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Parents of Nicrophorus vespilloides shave and disinfect a carcass, changing both its smell and its microbes. A related beetle whose parents skip that work does fine without it, and that contrast is the study's real evidence.
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A team spanning OIST, Gifu University, Kyoto University and the National Cancer Center synthesized 39 labelled gangliosides and watched them pair and separate in living membranes, where the pairing rather than the molecule suppressed EGFR.
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- Confidence55
The bottom-gate design lands threshold voltage within 0.1 V of target at 400C and still switches 1,000-to-1 at 600C. Those two numbers are 200 K apart.
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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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Genetic and morphological data from Carabus blaptoides suggest walking distance and habitat variation on one large island are enough to split a snail-hunting population.
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