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Who would have thought at the start of 2017 that Bitcoin would increase 20-fold? Since it became the first decentralised digital currency released...
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With rice being a major staple of diet in Japan, agriculture is a massively important industry. Japanese IT firm OPTiM and Saga University...
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Soft robot technology is often considered to be robots without 'bones', which can move and manipulate thanks to their rubbery...
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A vegetable factory that plans to open in Kyoto in 2017 will be the first farm to be entirely run by...
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In Japan, the overdevelopment of golf courses during the real-estate boom of the 90s and 00s led to hundreds of...
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By now it’s been proven that labs can grow mini kidneys, but connecting them to a host’s excretory system has...
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On rolling pastures in the mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, cattle peacefully graze on thick blades of grass. A...
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As humans we channel a staggering 70% of freshwater consumption into agriculture and industry, but urbanisation is making it harder to...
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