green goals

Tohoku University Green Goals Initiative has Announced

The Tohoku University has announced its new Green Goals Initiative, which includes developing green technology and promoting resilience and social Innovation. It also hopes to achieve carbon neutrality on campus by 2040. Tohoku University President…

European Robotic Arm

Robotic Arm launched into space

The European Robotic Arm (ERA) is on its way to the International Space Station after being launched on a Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, on 21 July, 2021.  The 11-m-long robot is…

dust mites

Study identifies how lung cells sense chitin, an…

MADISON — Some of the world’s most common allergy-inducing critters, from dust mites to fungi to shellfish, have one thing in common: chitin, the polymer that makes tough cell walls in mushrooms, fungal spores and…