Scientists from Stirling University and Kyoto University in Japan observed capuchin monkeys responded best to humans who were helpful to others.

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The new stem cell work was done by researchers at the University of Wisconsin and Kyoto University in Japan, and published in the journals Science and Cell.

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To grasp the intellectual poverty that awaits us in a smart world, look no further than recent blueprints for a "smart kitchen" an odd but persistent goal of today's computer scientists, most recently in designs from the University of Washington and Kyoto Sangyo University in Japan.

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In a commentary in the same journal, Dr Hiroaki Matsuba of the Kyoto University Hospital in Japan added that potential complications should be thoroughly investigated before such methods were more widely used in patients.

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Last March, following accusations by independent bloggers in Japan and Germany, the American Heart Association (AHA) issued an Expression of Concern about five papers published in AHA journals co-authored by the chief investigator of the Kyoto Heart Study, Hiroaki Matsubara, who was a prominent cardiologist and researcher at Kyoto Prefectural University in Japan.

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Dr Kobayashi and Dr Maskawa, who were at Japan's High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation and Kyoto University respectively, described a type of symmetry breaking that predicted two new families of quarks, a sort of subatomic particle whose simplest members are the ingredients of the protons and neutrons that form atomic nuclei.

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