Zip Infrastructure, which develops the self-propelled ropeway “Zippar,” announced on the 4th that it has raised additional funding in its Series A round through a third-party allotment ...

A remote-controlled robot on Tuesday embarked on its second mission to retrieve tiny bits of melted fuel debris from inside a damaged ...

Ashby was named director of the Department of Energy lab in 2015 and oversees the lab’s $1.6 billion research budget and about 6,400 employees. Battelle, which holds the DOE contract to manage and ...

Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, ...

Acclaimed as the ‘most romantic railway in the world’ as well as ‘the railway with the most beautiful autumn leaves’, the ...

In a sleepy German town, a major new museum has opened. For its master architect and his patron, the project is more than a ...

A faculty dedicated to dinosaur studies has been established this academic year in central Japan's Fukui Prefecture -- widely ...

Higher education doesn’t just change individual lives, it powers entire communities. In the Tri-Cities, Washington State ...

The technical term for the event is “coupling,” but it’s known colloquially as the “Shinkansen kiss.” For Japanese rail fans, it’s a big deal. For foreigners, it is a unique insight into the ...

More than 20,000 people who died at home alone in Japan last year were not found until more than eight days after their ...

UFO sightings have long been reported near Senganmori, a cone-shaped mountain in Iinomachi located about 30 minutes by car from the Fukushima city center. For around 30 years, local residents have ...

Coal is one of the more expensive technologies for utilities today, making it less competitive compared with solar, wind and natural gas, by Lazard’s calculations. Only nuclear, offshore wind and ...