The IMF projects Japan will fall to sixth by nominal GDP in 2027, behind India and Britain, yet the gap to Britain is roughly 0.5%. The weak yen explains the ranking; it does not explain Japan's slow real growth.

Ammonia burns slowly and needs about 500 times more ignition energy than iso-octane. Daihatsu turns part of it into hydrogen on the car. Why it starts with kei cars, and which problems it still lists as open.

A Moon clock gains about 56 microseconds a day on Earth clocks, about 17 km of navigation error per day if uncorrected. The CGPM's lunar time draft seeks one reference scale and never mentions optical clocks.

An Osaka-led Japan-US team tells left- and right-handed amino acids apart one molecule at a time. Soai's Nobel shows a tilt can grow from chance, and asteroids Ryugu and Bennu show none, so detectors must read both.

Zero Escape creator Kotaro Uchikoshi has revealed Crash Keys, a studio founded in March 2025, after a game it spent about a year and a half on was canceled. He is asking for work and investors, as he did in 2014.

Sukunaarchaeum has the smallest archaeal genome yet found: about 238,000 base pairs and 189 genes, with almost no metabolism. Smaller bacterial genomes exist, and the peer-reviewed abstract drops the cell-or-virus label.

Square Enix offers 300 million yen for first place and 1 billion yen across 15 games. Only Japan residents can enter, of any nationality, and winners transfer half their copyright with no release guaranteed.

Japanese researchers have read the genome of the potted cyclamen's wild ancestor: 1.48 billion base pairs, 83% of them repeats. Breeding scent back into the flower once took Saitama 21 years.

Zavacephale, now on show in Japan, pushed the pachycephalosaur dome record back at least 14 million years. It's billed as a head-butting dinosaur, but whether its kind fought that way has been argued since at least 1998.