Dr. REN from SCIEN-TALK

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SCIEN-SPOT is a podcast that shines a spotlight on the latest science news—delivered quickly and clearly in just a few minutes. I focus mainly on cutting-edge research from Japanese institutions. Host: Dr. Ren from SCIEN-TALKTalkative Japanese researcher with a deep love for quirky science and strange-but-true research stories. I mainly host a Japanese podcast called "SCIEN-TALK" (サイエントーク) If you're learning Japanese, give it a listen!https://listen.style/p/scien-spot-en?jmmEIcZG

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27. The ATP Prodrug Breakthrough: Reigniting Cellular Power 17.07.2025 9:06

Press release https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/2025/06/press20250624-02-atp.html LINEオープンチャット「サイエンチャット」はこちら ⁠https://line.me/ti/g2/KJnGcN0r59bQUo_p4gBglMyBAX-Mmsw0KxEvfA?utm_source=invitation&utm_medium=link_copy&utm_campaign=default⁠ X: ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA⁠ ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN⁠ SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠⁠ LINE: ⁠https://l...

26. Uncovering Blood Sugar's Hidden Metrics: The Osako Study's Borderline Discovery 16.07.2025 7:33

Press releasehttps://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/2025/06/press20250623-01-glucose.html LINEオープンチャット「サイエンチャット」はこちら ⁠https://line.me/ti/g2/KJnGcN0r59bQUo_p4gBglMyBAX-Mmsw0KxEvfA?utm_source=invitation&utm_medium=link_copy&utm_campaign=default⁠ X: ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA⁠ ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN⁠ SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠⁠ LINE: ⁠https:...

25. Beyond Softness: The Hidden Strength of Composites 15.07.2025 7:46

Press releasehttps://www.hokudai.ac.jp/news/2025/07/post-1967.html LINEオープンチャット「サイエンチャット」はこちら https://line.me/ti/g2/KJnGcN0r59bQUo_p4gBglMyBAX-Mmsw0KxEvfA?utm_source=invitation&utm_medium=link_copy&utm_campaign=default X: https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠ LINE: https://line.me/R/ti/p/@356egxqv...

24. A Plant's Clever Survival Strategy: Controlling the Direction of Its Flowers 14.07.2025 8:50

Press release https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/research-news/2025-05-12 X: ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA⁠ ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN⁠ SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠⁠ LINE: ⁠https://line.me/R/ti/p/@356egxqv⁠ Music : RYU ITO ⁠⁠https://ryu110.com/⁠

23. Will Glowing Street Trees Be the Future? Research on Bioluminescent Plants Exhibited at Expo 2025 Osaka 13.07.2025 7:15

Interview article https://www.rikelab.jp/post/11573.html Creating coveted bioluminescence colors for simultaneous multi-color bioimaginghttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp4750 X: https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠ LINE: https://line.me/R/ti/p/@356egxqv Music : RYU ITO ⁠https://ryu110.com/

22. Rewiring the Brain with Magnetism! Nanopulling Technology to Transform Parkinson's Disease Treatment 10.07.2025 6:40

Press releasehttps://www.cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp/j/pressrelease/news/250707-130000.html X: https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠ LINE: https://line.me/R/ti/p/@356egxqv Music : RYU ITO ⁠https://ryu110.com/

21. Secrets of the Eyeless Cave Insect: Unraveling the Laws of Genetic Decay 09.07.2025 8:22

Press release https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/news/2025/07/2-70.html X: ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA⁠ ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN⁠ SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠⁠ LINE: ⁠https://line.me/R/ti/p/@356egxqv⁠ Music : RYU ITO ⁠⁠https://ryu110.com/⁠

20. Approaches to Assessing Music Performance Anxiety: Guest Appearance at Tokyo Music Institute for Classical Music 29.06.2025 11:19

Press release https://www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/information/category/press/11645.html ★ニッポン放送 TOKYO MUSIC INSTITUTE for classical music https://podcast.1242.com/tmi/ ★科学系ポッドキャストの日「ストレス」プレイリストはこちら https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7GUO8YRR7cOvgVS5tyKK82?si=-aQq8lMdS9qnZrwYPxqnJg&nd=1&dlsi=1ff19233529a4843 X: ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA⁠ ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPO...

19. Unlocking Alzheimer's in Space: A Cosmic Breakthrough 26.06.2025 7:08

Press release https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/researchinfo/result/2025/06/-tottoria.html X: https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠ LINE: https://line.me/R/ti/p/@356egxqv Music : RYU ITO ⁠https://ryu110.com/

18. A Study on Genetic Influences on Brain Shape 25.06.2025 8:04

Press release https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/2025/06/press20250625-01-brain.html X: https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠ LINE: https://line.me/R/ti/p/@356egxqv Music : RYU ITO ⁠https://ryu110.com/

17. Was the Ancient Ocean Green? Cyanobacteria and Earth's Environmental Transformation 24.06.2025 6:22

Press release https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/research-news/2025-02-19 X: ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA⁠ ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN⁠ SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠⁠ Music : RYU ITO ⁠⁠https://ryu110.com/⁠

16. High School Teacher Discovers World's Largest 2.5-Million-Year-Old Butterfly Fossil 23.06.2025 8:09

Press release https://www.keio.ac.jp/ja/press-releases/2025/5/22/28-167130/ X: ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA⁠ ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN⁠ SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠⁠ Music : RYU ITO ⁠⁠https://ryu110.com/⁠

15. Discovery of Neurons Involved in Erasing Short-Term Memory 22.06.2025 7:26

Press releasehttps://www.hokudai.ac.jp/news/2025/06/post-1919.html X: ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA⁠ ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN⁠ SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠⁠ Music : RYU ITO ⁠⁠https://ryu110.com/⁠

14. Catching Lightning: NTT's Breakthrough in Drone-Induced Lightning Protection 19.06.2025 10:23

World's First Successful Lightning Triggering and Guiding Using a Drone Protecting cities and infrastructure with a lightning drone—toward a society free from lightning damagehttps://group.ntt/en/newsrelease/2025/04/18/250418a.html X: https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠ Music : RYU ITO ⁠https://ryu110.com/

13. The Dawn of Molecular Computing: Nanopore-Based DNA Logic Gates 18.06.2025 8:47

Nanopore-Based Single-Molecule Logic Unit (sMOLU) URL： https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smll.202501560 X: https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠ Music : RYU ITO ⁠https://ryu110.com/

12. The Surprising Truth: Why Do Human Wounds Heal So Slowly? 17.06.2025 12:12

Inter-species differences in wound-healing rate: a comparative study involving primates and rodentshttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.0233 X: https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠ Music : RYU ITO ⁠https://ryu110.com/

11. Can Your Saliva Reveal How Well You Sleep? 16.06.2025 7:28

Scientific Reports Potential non-invasive biomarkers of chronic sleep disorders identified by salivary metabolomic profiling among middle-aged Japanese men Katsutaka Oishi, Yuta Yoshida, Kosuke Kaida, Kozue Terai, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Atsushi Toyoda DOI：10.1038/s41598-025-95403-1 https://www.aist.go.jp/aist_j/press_release/pr2025/pr20250421/pr20250421.html X: ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA⁠ ⁠https://...

10. What Do Mayonnaise and Glass Have in Common? The Strange Science of Soft Solids 15.06.2025 8:20

Nature Physics A link between anomalous viscous loss and the boson peak in soft jammed solidsYusuke Hara*, Ryosuke Matsuoka, Hiroyuki Ebata, Daisuke Mizuno, Atsushi Ikeda DOI: ⁠10.1038/s41567-024-02722-7⁠ https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ja/researches/view/1196/ X: ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA⁠ ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN⁠ SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠⁠ Music : RYU ITO ⁠⁠https:...

8. Why Does Obesity Raise Your Uric Acid Levels? 11.06.2025 7:31

The Journal of Clinical Investigation Gene-environment interaction modifies the association between hyperinsulinemia and serum urate levels through SLC22A12 Wataru Fujii, Osamu Yamazaki, Daigoro Hirohama, Ken Kaseda, Emiko Kuribayashi-Okuma, Motonori Tsuji, Makoto Hosoyamada, Yuta Kochi, Shigeru Shibata DOI： 10.1172/JCI186633 https://www.isct.ac.jp/ja/news/x2zet5l0szw0 X: ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPO...

9. To Space Without Fuel!? The Bold Quest for Laser-Powered Rockets 11.06.2025 5:48

Free-flight and tracking experiments of a multi-parabola laser propulsion vehicle Masayuki Takahashi*, Yuya Hayadate, Koichi Mori, and Akihiro Hayakawa Scientific Reports, Vol. 15, 15513 (2025). DOI： 10.1038/s41598-025-00429-0 https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/2025/05/press20250521-04-laser.html X: https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠https://scien-t...

7. The Origin of Time: What a 2.2-Billion-Year-Old Protein Reveals 10.06.2025 12:39

Nature Communications "Evolutionary Origins of Self-Sustained Kai protein Circadian Oscillators in Cyanobacteria" Atsushi Mukaiyama, Yoshihiko Furuike, Kumiko Ito-Miwa, Yasuhiro Onoue, Kota Horiuchi, Kanta Kondo, Eiki Yamashita, Shuji Akiyama DOI : 10.1038/s41467-025-59908-7 https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/researchinfo/result/2025/05/22.html X: ⁠⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPO...

6. Facing the 10-Million Dementia Era: Japan’s New Alzheimer’s Risk Prediction Model 09.06.2025 6:17

認知症 1,000 万人時代に備える。日本人のアルツハイマー発症リスクが遺伝子情報から予測可能に。-将来の脳内アミロイドβ蓄積リスクを高精度に予測するモデルを開発https://www.keio.ac.jp/ja/press-releases/files/2025/5/27/250527-1.pdf X: ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA⁠ ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN⁠ SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠⁠ Music : RYU ITO ⁠⁠https://ryu110.com/⁠

4. Observing Earthquakes Without Seismometers! How Fiber Optics are Changing Earthquake Research 05.06.2025 9:01

Estimating Focal Mechanism of Small Earthquakes Using S/P Amplitude Ratios of Distributed Acoustic Sensing Records https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL113963https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/research-news/2025-05-13-0 X: https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠ Music : RYU ITO ⁠https://ryu110.com/

5. The “Umbilical Cord” of Plants?! A New Gateway That Could Shape the Future of Rice 05.06.2025 13:34

First new plant tissue discovered in 160 years boosts crop yields https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/researchinfo/result/2025/04/post-803.html X: ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA⁠ ⁠https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN ⁠ SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠⁠ Music : RYU ITO ⁠⁠https://ryu110.com/

3. New Sensory Organs Discovered for Cough and Swallowing 04.06.2025 11:08

Channel synapse mediates neurotransmission of airway protective chemoreflexes https://www.kpu-m.ac.jp/doc/news/2025/20250402.html X: https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_JA https://x.com/SCIEN_SPOT_EN SCIEN-TALK サイエントーク: ⁠https://scien-talk.com/⁠ Music : RYU ITO ⁠https://ryu110.com/