HISTORICAL FACTS: Kobe university - The Untold Story

A Photo of Your Hand Could Reveal a Rare Hormone Disorder, and AI Spotted It Better Than 10 Specialists

A Kobe University AI detected acromegaly from hand photos with 89% sensitivity, outscoring 10 endocrinologists reading the same images.

Medical Daily · Aug 11

Breakthrough 1-pixel camera records holographic video – built at microscopic scale

Kobe University's development records 3D images of moving objects and obtains images outside the visible spectrum with a one-pixel sensor

Digital Camera World · May 26, 2025

For designer and craftsman Kodai Iwamoto 'good design should be able to speak for itself'

In a rapidly changing world, the route designers take to discover their calling is increasingly circuitous. Here we speak to Kodai Iwamoto about the interconnectedness of design, communication and culture

Wallpaper · Dec 6, 2024

Otherworldly 'fairy lantern' plant that was presumed extinct emerges from forest floor

The Thismia, commonly known as "fairy lanterns", is characterised by its unusual appearance, and lack of photosynthesis - and the plant is very rare as it can only grow in certain places

Daily Mirror · May 27, 2023

Japan’s most familiar orchid is found to have near-identical cousin

All the Spiranthes on the Japanese mainland were thought to be a single species, but in fact there are two

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2023