Japan has quietly crossed a threshold in naval warfare, installing a massive high-energy laser on a dedicated test ship and beginning live trials at sea. The system, rated at 100-kilowatt power, is ...

Japan’s OHISAMA Project is a practical demonstration of space-based solar power (SBSP)—which, if scaled up, could solve many ...

What if the future of technology hinged on a single breakthrough? For decades, semiconductors have been the invisible engines driving everything from smartphones to space exploration. Yet, the global ...

Japan’s space program is set to make history in 2025 by beaming solar energy from an orbiting satellite down to Earth, marking the first significant test of orbital power transmission. This ambitious ...

An autonomous robot guides shared cars inside Toyota's new "Woven City", a high-tech village opened to test autonomous driving and other futuristic developments ...

Goodbye New START: How China’s Rise Ended Nuclear Arms Control Unsurprisingly, it was also in Japan that neocognitron, the architectural ancestor of the neural networks that power systems like ChatGPT ...

In a cooperation with Daihatsu and HAL College of Technology and Design in Japan, students show their vision of minicars in the future. Where is car design heading? Answering that question is well ...