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Keyword - Japan

- Beamline bonanza for Japanese researchers - Premium content
  
  A proton-accelerator complex will incorporate one of the world's most intense pulsed neutron sources.
  
  26 November 2008
- Science in the meltdown - Premium content
  
  The research enterprise faces many uncertainties in the looming global recession - but it also has many strengths that may help it weather the storm. Nature investigates.
  
  12 November 2008
- Nobel for AIDS virus discovery, finally - Premium content
  
  Medicine prize goes to virus researchers; physics prize given for symmetry-breaking work.
  
  8 October 2008
- Nobel Prize in Physics for symmetry breakdown - Premium content
  
  Japanese-born theorists rewarded for work on fundamental symmetries in particle physics.
  
  7 October 2008
- Dog cloners baring their teeth - Premium content
  
  Rival companies are about to clash over who has the rights to the crucial technology.
  
  4 July 2008
- Japan ramps up patent effort to keep iPS lead - Premium content
  
  United States in race to commercialize pluripotent stem cells.
  
  18 June 2008
- Japan's monitoring system beaten by shallow quake - Premium content
  
  Earthquake takes nine lives as destruction arrives ahead of warning.
  
  16 June 2008
- Japanese nuclear plant in quake risk - Premium content
  
  Reprocessing facility may be built on active fault.
  
  4 June 2008
- In brief: Japan to allow limited human embryonic cloning - Premium content
  
  28 May 2008
- Whales are on the rise - Premium content
  
  Humpback population shows signs of recovery.
  
  21 May 2008