14-Mar-2025 Shedding light on the intangible spaces of the state Kobe University Associate Professor SHIMOJO Hisashi of the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies conducts research on spaces where state intervention is difficult from the perspectives of anthropology and Southeast Asian studies. His main research focus is on the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam, but he aims to understand the backgrounds of how such spaces are formed regardless of the country, and the social order that people weave in these spaces. His efforts illuminate the image of the state as seen by ordinary people and challenge the understanding of society. We spoke with Shimojo about the results of his research and future prospects. In his words, “If the front side of a coin represents the state, then I study its reverse side.”
14-Mar-2025 Raising the stakes on practice University of Nevada, Las Vegas UNLV’s PGA Golf Management University Program partners with Las Vegas-based AI technology company Evenplay to study the effects of rewards on skill level.
13-Mar-2025 Daniel Haskel of Photon Sciences selected for Oppenheimer fellowship program DOE/Argonne National Laboratory Daniel Haskel of the lab’s Photon Sciences directorate has been selected to represent Argonne in the 2025 cohort of DOE’s Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program (OSELP).
13-Mar-2025 Security scheme could protect sensitive data during cloud computation Massachusetts Institute of Technology A theoretical encryption technique could enable anyone to perform computations on encrypted messages without learning anything about the underlying sensitive data. The method, developed at MIT, could prove to be efficient enough to implement in real-world scenarios. Funder Apple, Capital One, Facebook, Google, Mozilla, NASDAQ, MIT’s FinTech@CSAIL Initiative, U.S. National Science Foundation, Simons Investigator Award
13-Mar-2025 World’s first crowd-sourced neuroscience study aims to understand how our brains predict the future Allen Institute Predictive processing is critical for survival but little is known about how our brains attempt to predict future events based on sensory stimuli and past experience. In a first-of-its-kind study, a global team of scientists has crowd sourced and designed experiments that will probe the mechanisms of how brains anticipate events in their environment. The experiments begin today at the Allen Institute in Seattle, Washington using the cutting-edge OpenScope platform.
13-Mar-2025 Global comparative study on ocean alkalinity enhancement begins in Kiel Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) 13.03.2025/Kiel. How do plankton communities respond to increased alkalinity in different oceanic regions? This question is at the heart of the international research project "Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Pelagic Impact Intercomparison Project" (OAEPIIP). As part of this globally coordinated comparative study, standardized experiments are being conducted at 19 locations worldwide – including at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. In Germany, researchers are using water from the Boknis Eck time-series station (Eckernförde Bay, south-western Baltic Sea), which was collected on Friday.
13-Mar-2025 Developing disaster education to protect children’s lives Kobe University Professor SAKURAI Aiko of the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies has a unique background, pursuing a career in international cooperation before expanding her research to include disaster education. While keeping a focus on teachers and the classroom, she has been exploring the development of disaster education where schools can protect children’s lives, and has been involved in implementing and supporting efforts in the field. We asked her about how disaster education has changed after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and the Great East Japan Earthquake, and how she hopes to spread the initiatives to the world.
13-Mar-2025 Disruptive behavior in video game communities: Q&A with USC’s Dmitri Williams University of Southern California Some people take part in multiplayer games to enjoy the community generated by in-game experiences, but other players exhibit antisocial behavior.
12-Mar-2025 Summit Supercomputer Draws Molecular Blueprint for Repairing Damaged DNA DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Researchers at Georgia State University used the Summit supercomputer to study an elaborate molecular pathway called nucleotide excision repair, or NER. They built a computer model of a critical NER component called the pre-incision complex, or PInC, which plays a key role in regulating DNA repair processes in the latter stages of the NER pathway. Decoding NER’s sophisticated sequence of events and the role of PInC in the pathway could provide key insights into developing novel treatments and preventing conditions that lead to premature aging and certain types of cancer. Journal Nature Communications Funder Advanced Scientific Computing Research
12-Mar-2025 NASA's record-shattering, theory-breaking MMS mission turns 10 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of magnetic reconnection, a key physical process that is important across the universe, from black holes to the Sun to Earth's protective magnetic field.
