A neural connection between sensations of hunger and the delayed onset of puberty has been teased out for the first time Figure 1: Giving birth to young places a large burden on mammalian mothers, and ...

Xiaowei Gu and Joshua Johansen at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have discovered key circuitry in the rat brain that allows the learning of inferred emotions. The study reveals how the ...

Figure 1: Five thiophene-fused nanobelts (yellow spheres: sulfur atoms; gray spheres: carbon atoms) in an organic solution. © 2025 RIKEN Molecule Creation Laboratory ...

Our laboratory researches the application of deep learning and quantum computing to predictive problems in the medical field, autonomous scientific discovery, and the acquisition of creativity. Please ...

Even quantum systems with long-range interactions between particles can be analyzed using a key principle Figure 1: Ion traps such as the one shown here are one promising technology for developing ...

A method for fixing errors that occur in quantum computers is made massively more efficient through deep learning Figure 1: Quantum computers based on light stand to benefit from a technique that uses ...

Comprehensive understanding of the interactions among microscopic particles that is essential to understand the building block of the matter. We investigate the hadronic interactions via studying ...

The Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) views the functions of molecules, cells, and organs that support all life stages of organisms as a dynamic system, and aims to elucidate developmental ...

RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) promotes interdisciplinary collaborations and the creation of new interdisciplinary fields through interactions among ...

理研らの国際共同研究グループは、歯周病以外に全身的な疾患のない患者と歯周病を含む全身的な疾患のない健康な対象者の唾液、ならびにふん便中の細菌叢（そう）を網羅的に解析し、歯周病患者では唾液中の細菌だけでなく腸内細菌叢にも乱れが生じていることを突き止めま ...

女性研究者や女性研究リーダーの数が依然として少ない日本では、若い女性研究者が先陣の知恵を取り入れることはとても重要です。理化学研究所（理研）では、エルゼビア財団（Elsevier Foundation） とのパートナーシップにより、日本の女性PI（Principal Investigator：研究室主宰者）の歩みをインタビュー形式で紹介し、課題や成功事例を明らかにする「Envisioning Fu ...

福井県立大学 生物資源学研究科の生駒 拓也さん（研究当時 博士前期課程2年生）、西嶋 遼 准教授、池田 美穂 准教授、風間 裕介 教授と、理化学研究所の阿部 知子 ...