SCIEN-SPOT

By Dr. REN from SCIEN-TALK

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.

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The podcast currently has 19 episodes available.

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June 26, 2025 Unlocking Alzheimer's in Space: A Cosmic Breakthrough
Press release
https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/researchinfo/result/2025/06/-tottoria.html
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June 25, 2025 A Study on Genetic Influences on Brain Shape
Press release
https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/2025/06/press20250625-01-brain.html
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9min
June 24, 2025 Was the Ancient Ocean Green? Cyanobacteria and Earth's Environmental Transformation
Press release
https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/research-news/2025-02-19

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June 23, 2025 High School Teacher Discovers World's Largest 2.5-Million-Year-Old Butterfly Fossil
Press releasehttps://www.keio.ac.jp/ja/press-releases/2025/5/22/28-167130/
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June 22, 2025 Discovery of Neurons Involved in Erasing Short-Term Memory
Press releasehttps://www.hokudai.ac.jp/news/2025/06/post-1919.html

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June 19, 2025 Catching Lightning: NTT's Breakthrough in Drone-Induced Lightning Protection
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

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11min
June 18, 2025 The Dawn of Molecular Computing: Nanopore-Based DNA Logic Gates
Nanopore-Based Single-Molecule Logic Unit (sMOLU)
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9min
June 17, 2025 The Surprising Truth: Why Do Human Wounds Heal So Slowly?
Inter-species differences in wound-healing rate: a comparative study involving primates and rodentshttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.0233

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13min
June 16, 2025 Can Your Saliva Reveal How Well You Sleep?
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

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June 15, 2025 What Do Mayonnaise and Glass Have in Common? The Strange Science of Soft Solids
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/
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9min

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How many episodes does SCIEN-SPOT have?

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