Here’s the dream team: Sōichi Masui directs, keeping that perfect mix of humor and heart. Masahiro Yokotani writes the scripts, so expect those tear-jerking moments. Satomi Tamura designs the ...

Measured against that, the Kakeya conjecture – a problem stemming from a 1917 thought experiment by Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya – may not seem too impressive.

Scientists in Tokyo have developed a groundbreaking, label-free method to identify aging human cells using electric fields. This new technique avoids the downsides of chemical tagging, which can ...

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The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch.

Mathematicians have finally solved a geometry problem that has puzzled the field for decades. By wiggling a needle around while spinning it, you can minimize the amount of space it moves through ...

Wall displays showcase original drawings from Yoshitake’s works. (© Matsumoto Sōichi, Nippon.com) The show is titled It Might Be a Yoshitake Shinsuke Exhibition, a paean to his first book.

Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, the Kakeya conjecture in 3D, which studies the shape left behind by a ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon may originate in diverse ways.

The voice cast of Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus includes Reina Ueda as Miniskirt Santa, Kaito Ishikawa as Sakuta Azusagawa, and Mai Sakurajima as Asami Seto. Returning staff for the anime ...