Activity Reports
Dark Problems in Science
Student essays from the 2020 WISE FoPM Graduate Program Course “Scientific Writing, Publication, and Communication”
Unsolved problems in science fuel the public imagination and call scientists on journeys to explore and illuminate the darkest horizons of human knowledge. In this course, graduate students in the sciences at The University of Tokyo contributed essays that describe some of the most important scientific mysteries of our generation. These questions were refined by an innovative open science peer review process under the tutelage of instructors Drs. Kate Harris, Mark Vagins, and Charles Yokoyama. Please enjoy exploring and reading them.
Aoi Eguchi
The Mystery of the Asymmetry between Matter and Antimatter in the Universe
Kouhei Fukai
What is the nature of “life”?
Yoshua Hirai
Shedding light on condensed matter, literally.
Shun Ito
Symmetry Breaking in Our Body–Mystery of Homochirality in Biomolecules
Hanjin Liu
What should we look at in the cell?
Morihiko Nishida
The Mystery of Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors
Yume Nishinomiya
“How do we solve the mysteries of the early universe?”
Kosuke Nishiwaki
“Searching for the source of very high energy neutrinos”
Yoshitaka Okuyama
What is the most fundamental thing in the world?
Minori Shikauchi
Fast Radio Bursts: Hidden Cosmological Radio Sources
Maki Someya
How can we obtain structurally well-defined carbon nanotubes?
Shoki Sugimoto
The Arrow of Time: Bridging the Macroscopic and Microscopic Realms
Shiro Tamiya
Toward the Paradigm of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Hiroaki Tanaka
The Undiscovered Potential of Magnetic Materials
Fumio Uchida
How Fast Is the Universe Expanding?
Taku Yonemoto
Why is the Sun's Corona So Hot?
Yohei Zushi
We Live in Turbulent Flow