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Kyoko Sengoku-Haga:
A Portrait of the Artist as an Historian

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Falling Walls Lab Sendai - 2017

Share your innovative ideas at the Falling Walls Lab, win a scholarship and travel to the final in Berlin!
Winners of Tohoku University's 2017 Spring Photo Contest

Congratulations to the winners of Tohoku University's first ever photo contest!
Hope for the Best, Expect the Worst and Always Be Prepared

A disaster prevention drill was held recently for Sendai's international community. Many students living at the University House dormitories in Sanjo also took part.
Suzume Odori at Aoba Matsuri 2017

A group of mostly international students from Tohoku University performed the Suzume Odori, or sparrow dance, at this year's Aoba Matsuri on May 20.

Reproducing a retinal disease on a chip

Good news for the treatment of retinal diseases using the organ-on-a-chip approach.
On the road to creating an electrodeless spacecraft propulsion engine

Experiments by researchers give clues about the behavior of plasma in different environments.
Physicists squeeze extra data from superfast x-ray probes using machine learning

Chemical reactions could be probed in even greater detail using a method that better characterises ultrafast x-rays.
Researchers flip the script on magnetocapacitance

A new type of magnetocapacitance could be useful in the next generation of spintronic devices.