Hakuba Valley is located in Japan's Nagano Prefecture, which is just three hours from Tokyo by bullet train. The valley is ...

A study to see how moss would fare in the extreme environment of space has left scientists “genuinely astonished” after the ...

Moss has been shown to survive one of the harshest environments imaginable: the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS). Researchers sent three different types of moss structures to the ...

Japan's new PM has vowed to "work, work, work," even on two hours of sleep. Critics warn her stance could revive toxic ...

Hokkaido has long been one of Japan’s major agricultural regions. Today, the northern island known for dairy farms, ski ...

Bolted to the exterior of the International Space Station, a few hundred moss capsules spent nine months staring straight ...

Moss spores survived nine months outside the space station, revealing surprising strength and new clues about life in space.

The country once led the world in semiconductors and electronics, but over the years it fell behind Taiwan, South Korea and ...

Facing closure with only nine new enrollees, the town-run Niseko High School here has remarkably turned its fortunes around ...

So, they sent some sporophytes to the ISS. Astronauts affixed the samples to the station's exterior, where they remained for ...

The U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Japan issued the travel alert on November 20. The Sakurajima volcano “has shown a significant increase in explosive activity since November 16, 2025, with a large ...

Enthralling, a half sister to this year's Epsom Derby (G1) hero Lambourn, proved the headline act Nov. 21 at the opening session of Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale when she sold to Northern Farm ...