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EVOLUTION

Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 23, 2014
Superbug threat requires urgent world action: scientists
Superbugs resistant to drugs pose a serious worldwide threat and demand a response on the same scale as efforts to combat climate change, specialists on infectious diseases said on Thursday.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 11, 2014
Biologists invent new DNA letters for life's alphabet
Scientists have taken the first steps toward writing the blueprint of life in an alphabet unknown to nature, they have reported in the journal Nature.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 9, 2014
Who's your daddy? Argentine beast crowned 'Godzilla' of dinosaurs
Scientists have unveiled estimates of body weight for an astounding 426 dinosaur species using a formula based on the thickness of their leg bones, crowning the long-necked Argentinosaurus as the all-time heavyweight champ.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 3, 2014
Neanderthals not incompetent dimwits: study
No offense, but your ancestors probably were no brighter than a Neanderthal.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 24, 2014
Hokkaido entomologist uncovers Brazilian bugs whose bawdy bits baffle scholars
This may be the role reversal to end all role reversals.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 21, 2014
Jaws, the prequel: Scientists find the 'Model T Ford' of sharks
You have heard of the Ford Model T, the famed early 20th-century automobile that was the forerunner of the modern car. But how about the Model T shark?
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 14, 2014
Migrating birds carried heaven-sent lager yeast
Lager drinkers can thank birds for their favorite tipple — that is the conclusion of U.S. scientists who say the yeast involved in making the amber nectar could have been spread around the planet by migrating birds.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 11, 2014
Flies found to escape danger with aerial maneuvers like a fighter jet
The fact that flies are airborne acrobats should not surprise anyone who has ever swung a flyswatter at one, but scientists using video cameras to track a fly's aerial maneuvers found they employ astonishingly quick midair banked turns to evade predators much like a fighter jet executes to elude an enemy....
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 1, 2014
Worst mass die-off pinned on microbe
Sometimes bad things come in small packages.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 21, 2014
World's oldest-known stick insect, from Cretaceous, unearthed in China
Sometimes it is better not to be noticed.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 14, 2014
Fossil of ancient whale sheds light on how cetacean sonar developed
The deadly threat posed by German submarines during World War I helped spur scientists to develop sonar, using underwater sound signals to locate objects like subs.
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 7, 2014
Dazzling Chinese fossils offer portal into Jurassic
A spectacular array of beautifully preserved fossils unearthed in northeastern China over the past two decades provides a unique portal on life 160 million years ago in the Jurassic Period, an international team of scientists said this week.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 6, 2014
Butterfly mimics found to use just a single gene
The masquerade party never ends for these ladies.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 29, 2013
Hungry animals, people use 'Levy walk'
Imagine you are a member of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in a remote part of the sprawling African plains, and your stomach is growling. How do you search for something to eat?
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 15, 2013
Study says modern-day dogs closely related to European canines
Amid the harsh, icy lands of ancient Europe, early man found himself an unexpected companion — the snarling, carnivorous wolf — which would eventually become his modern-day counterpart's best furry friend.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 13, 2013
Plant hoppers found to have 'gears' to boost jumping
A jumping insect has gears, scientists have discovered, a rare instance in which man and nature independently converged on the same idea.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Sep 4, 2013
Scientists tracing ancestry of India's large mammals
About 120 million years ago, the supercontinent of Gondwana broke into a jigsaw puzzle of continents and isles in the Southern Hemisphere. One of those was a giant island forming what we now call India.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 2, 2013
Different perceptions of smell linked to genetics
The next time you argue with a friend about the whiff of cilantro in your stir-fry that he finds disgusting, blame his genes.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 25, 2013
Why some people are more prone to mosquito bites
Mosquito season is in full swing. A lucky few people seem immune to the bites of the pesky insects. Others can't seem to avoid them.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jul 10, 2013
Kimo-kawaii: a chronology in 13 steps
If it's hard to look at but harder to look away, it's kimo-kawaii.
As ‘Buy Canadian’ grows, more U.S. firms say retailers turning away products
Empty shelves with "Buy Canadian Instead" signs are seen in the American Whiskey section of the BC Liquor in Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 10.
Trump unveils 10% global tariff, with Japan levy set at 24%
Trump tosses a MAGA hat to the crowd during an event in which he unveiled new tariffs in the White House on Wednesday.
A Canadian made a weekend trip to Costco a Japanese pastime
Under the watchful eye of Ken Theriault, Costco representative director and Japan country manager, the American membership-model wholesaler has flourished in Japan.
Meiji says sayonara to bottled milk, a staple of Japan's bathhouses
Meiji bottled milk lined up in a fridge at Kosugiyu, a bathhouse in Tokyo. The sticker urges patrons to enjoy the milk one last time before it’s gone.
Japan, South Korea and China vow to strengthen trade ties amid looming U.S. tariffs
Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yoji Muto (left), South Korean Trade Industry and Energy Minister Ahn Duk-geun (center) and Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao during a trilateral meeting in Seoul on Sunday
Haruki Murakami TV adaptation revisits 30 years of watershed moments
Though Haruki Murakami's trademark whiff of offbeat existentialism is threaded throughout NHK's "After the Quake," the final episode — conceived as a sequel to the story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" — is the most stylized, featuring an anthropomorphic talking frog (voiced by Non) and his erstwhile associate Katagiri (Koichi Sato).
A new human trafficking trend emerges from Myanmar scam centers
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar gather at a compound inside KK Park, a fraud center on the country's border with Thailand, after a multinational crackdown in February.
Meiji says sayonara to bottled milk, a staple of Japan's bathhouses
Meiji bottled milk lined up in a fridge at Kosugiyu, a bathhouse in Tokyo. The sticker urges patrons to enjoy the milk one last time before it’s gone.
A Canadian made a weekend trip to Costco a Japanese pastime
Under the watchful eye of Ken Theriault, Costco representative director and Japan country manager, the American membership-model wholesaler has flourished in Japan.
On defense, Japan may avoid Trump's worst impulses — for now
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth chat after reviewing an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sunday.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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