Japanese Research Institute
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Japan's largest comprehensive research institution, developer and operator of the Fugaku supercomputer. - Operating Fugaku supercomputer for neuroscience research
Scientists at Germany's Jülich Research Centre demonstrated in mid-January 2026 that Europe's most powerful supercomputer can simulate 20 billion spiking neurons—matching the scale of the human cerebral cortex. The team plans to combine this capability with anatomical brain data to run full-cortex simulations, a technical milestone that has eluded researchers since the field's founding in the 1980s.
Updated Jan 31
Japan's largest comprehensive research institution, hosting the Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory. - Partnering with BASE collaboration
CERN's BASE collaboration kept a single antiproton oscillating between quantum states for 50 seconds—long enough to create the world's first antimatter qubit. The breakthrough, published in Nature in July 2025, opens the door to measuring antiproton properties with 10 to 100 times more precision than before. It's not about building quantum computers. It's about answering why the universe exists at all.
Updated Jan 7
Japan's flagship scientific research institute with 3,000 scientists across seven campuses. - Collaborative research partner on hydrogen superfluidity
Scientists trapped hydrogen molecules in frozen helium droplets at nearly absolute zero and watched them flow without friction—the first direct observation of superfluidity in a molecule. When they spun a methane molecule inside clusters of 15 to 20 hydrogen molecules, it rotated forever without slowing down, confirming what Nobel laureate Vitaly Ginzburg predicted in 1972 but no one could prove until now.
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