A clear confirmation from the Rosetta spacecraft that all comets share the same origin

Ramon Brasser and others published papers in Icarus and Astronomy & Astrophysics

December 12, 2014

Deep water cycle: Mantle hydration

Masayuki Nishi published a paper in Nature Geoscience

December 10, 2014

Ecophysiology of Thioploca ingrica as revealed by the complete genome sequence supplemented with proteomic evidence

Ken Kurokawa and others published a paper in The ISME (International Society for Microbial Ecology) Journal

November 18, 2014

Coping with low ocean sulfate

Yuichiro Ueno published a paper in Science

November 07, 2014

A giant step toward the artificial cell by successful synthesis of the functional cell membrane in vitro

Yutetsu Kuruma and others published a paper in Angewandte Chemie

July 23, 2014

Jupiter's moons remain slightly illuminated, even in eclipse

Jun Kimura and others published a paper in The  Astrophysical Journal

June 19, 2014

Lipid accumulation enhancement achieved using nutrition starvation-inducible promoter in algae

Hiroyuki Ohta and others published a paper in Plant Biotechnology Journal

June 12, 2014

Genome analysis reveals how algae evolved into land plants

Ken Kurokawa and others published a paper in Nature Communications

May 29, 2014

When did nitrogen fixation for supporting major life process begin? ~ Discovery of potential existence of nitrogen fixing microorganism in 3.5-billion -year-old hydrothermal environments ~ 

Ken Takai and others published a paper in Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta

May 16, 2014