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The Omicron variant of COVID-19 appears less likely to cause serious symptoms because it stops at the “entrance” of lung tissues, a Japanese research team experimenting on hamsters has found.

Japanese researchers in Antarctica are deploying Weddell seals fitted out with high-tech head-mounted measuring devices to survey waters under the thick ice sheet at the South Pole.

OSAKA—The probability of infection with the Omicron variant is greatly lowered with distance, mask wearing and other measures, but the strain still spreads more easily than the Delta strain, according to Fugaku supercomputer simulations.

Just like children developing a dominant hand, young fish also may choose a preferred side, although that preference must be determined early on, researchers have discovered.

The programme is "designed to give the most exciting start-ups and entrepreneurs in the North West the support they need".

Researchers have uncovered evidence of previously undocumented ancient megaquakes whose characteristics are now being used to help Japan prepare for the next devastating seismic event.

Typhoons churn up so much plastic debris littering beaches and other areas that the volume of plastic trash floating in the world’s oceans rises 1,300-fold in weight afterward, according to researchers.

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. have agreed to provide technical support to a fast nuclear reactor development project in the United States led by a U.S. firm.

Scientists have found that the Omicron variant causes less severe illness in animals than other variants of the novel coronavirus, such as the Delta strain.

A volcanic eruption in southern Japan 30,000 years ago was so massive it dumped a 10-centimeter layer of ash in what is now the sprawling metropolis of Tokyo, according to researchers.