A type of bird flu virus that has spread in Japan over the last few years has been found to easily infect crows, compared ...

AIST researchers, in collaboration with JAMSTEC, Hokkaido University and Tohoku University, have succeeded in cultivating an ...

Changes in ocean currents stemming from global warming have led to a sharp increase in endangered Japanese eel larvae ...

A new computational tool improves the analysis of genetic data, making it easier and faster to study the evolutionary relationships between species. A new computational tool improves the analysis ...

The Iwamizawa case is unique in that it involves ongoing and close collaboration between Hitachi, Hokkaido University and the city’s residents, which supported the practical knowledge sharing ...

"Gary, I have some news," Yoshi said. "We have a few grains of barley from a site on the Hokkaido University campus. I think you should come and look at them." The Japanese language is notorious ...

A study by Hokkaido University researchers has shown that floating ice in the Sea of Okhotsk is not only dwindling in terms of coverage area, but has also lost 30 percent of its thickness across a ...