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- Discovering how heavy elements were made
Nuclear physicists at RIKEN have measured the mass of a neutron-rich nucleus of the element palladium to a greater accuracy than ever before1. When this mass is fed into models of merging neutron s...
- A new tool in the search for axions
Researchers from the international BASE collaboration at CERN, Switzerland, which is led by the RIKEN Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, have discovered a new avenue to search for axions-a hypothet... - The water surface is a fantastic place for chemical reactions
Using an advanced technique, scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have demonstrated that a chemical reaction powered by light takes place ten thousand times faster at the air-w... - High-precision spectroscopic measurements reveal the dynamics of water molecules lying at the surface
Chemical reactions and physical processes that involve water surfaces will be easier to model thanks to the discovery by an all-RIKEN team of how the molecules at water surfaces lose energy1. Wa... - Transient grating spectroscopy with ultrafast X-rays
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have succeeded for the first time in looking inside materials using the method of transient grating spectroscopy with ultrafast X-rays at SwissFEL. Th... - Nickel atom aids carbon dioxide reduction
Scientists are closer to finding ways to convert carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into industrially useful chemicals thanks to a RIKEN study that looked at how nature converts carbon dioxide into m... - Microbes are engineered to convert sugar into 1,3-butadiene, used in synthetic rubber
The future environmental footprint of the tire industry could be substantially shrunk thanks to a new ecofriendly way found by four RIKEN researchers that harnesses bacteria to make a chemical used... - Crafting a "sponge" for adsorbing and desorbing gas molecules
A group of researchers led by scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and the University of Tokyo have created an unusual material - a soft crystal made of molecules known as a...
- Visualization of the stepwise on-surface reaction of aromatic organic molecules
By observing individual atoms as they rearrange themselves step by step, chemists at RIKEN have cast new light on the route by which halogenated aromatic molecules join together on a silver surface... - Temperature-responsive polymer points the way to sustainable plastics
A polymer that can be broken down into its molecular building blocks, which can then be recombined by either heating or cooling-but by different mechanisms in each case-has been developed by RIKEN ... - Single-molecule resonance Raman effect in a plasmonic nanocavity
Scientists at RIKEN have been able to detect vibrations of a single molecule, allowing them to produce different maps of the molecule for different vibrations. This technique is promising for probi... - A friendlier way to deal with nitrate pollution
Learning from nature, scientists from the Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan and the Korean Basic Science Institute (KBSI) have found a catalyst that efficiently transforms nitrate in... - Using the Tokyo Skytree to test Einstein's theory of general relativity
In another verification of the validity of Einstein's theory of general relativity, published in Nature Photonics, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics and Cluster for Pioneering... - Terahertz radiation can disrupt proteins in living cells
Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics and collaborators have discovered that terahertz radiation, contradicting conventional belief, can disrupt proteins in living cells without ... - Spider silk made by photosynthetic bacteria
Spiders produce amazingly strong and lightweight threads called draglines that are made from silk proteins. Although they can be used to manufacture a number of useful materials, getting enough of ... - Every moment of ultrafast chemical bonding now captured on film
A team of South Korean researchers led by Professor Hyotcherl Ihee from the Department of Chemistry at KAIST reported the direct observation of the birthing moment of chemical bonds by tracking rea... - Indirect impacts of a pandemic on women in science
On 9 September, EMBL hosted a conference to discuss the indirect impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on women in science. As one of the speakers noted, the pandemic has been a torrential storm. But...
- Scientists observe a new form of strange matter
In a discovery that could provide new insights into the origin of mass in the universe following the Big Bang, scientists from the international J-PARC E15 Collaboration, led by researchers from th... - New type of self-healing material
Materials that can self-heal have become a popular area of research during the last decade, and a variety of materials have been developed. However, most of the self-healing materials reported to d... - Nuclear "magic numbers" collapse beyond the doubly magic Nickel 78
Scientists from the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Research in Japan and an international collaboration network with a strong participation of scientists from Technische Universität Dar... - Historical gathering: International meeting of the discoverers of chemical elements
As part of the International Year of the Periodic Table 2019, the Conference on the Chemistry and Physics of Heavy Elements (TAN) taking place in Wilhelmshaven, Germany from the 25th to the 30th of... - Doubling down on boron to make complex organic molecules
A user-friendly method to form sought-after diborylalkenes by attaching boron groups to organic molecules has been developed by an all-RIKEN team1. Diborylalkenes are stepping stones to many valuab... - How ions enable spiders to spin spider silk
The role ions play in the production of spider silk has been revealed by an all-RIKEN team. This finding will help researchers in their long-term goal of producing artificial spider silk. Spide...
- Atomic structure reveals how cells translate environmental signals
In all living cells, chemical signals are harnessed for intracellular communication. The inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) is one such signal that binds to the IP3 receptor (IP3R) to release calci...
- New polymer solar cell minimizes loss of photon energy
As the world increasingly looks to alternative sources of energy, inexpensive and environmentally friendly polymer-based solar cells have attracted significant attention, but they still do not matc...