Sci-Tech

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An organization has been set up in Japan that hopes to make space travel available to just about anyone. The key ingredient is a space elevator moving up and down a cable about 100,000 kilometers long that would transport passengers out of the Earth's atmosphere. (Asahi)

Reaching dizzying depths of more than 9,000 meters, the Japan Trench is, quite simply, the stuff that imagination is made of. It is home to a veritable Lost World of bizarre creatures that are virtually unknown to scientists. (Gading)

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Boosted by its win of the 2008 Nobel Physics Prize, Japan said Wednesday it hoped to play host to a major international scientific organisation's new machine exposing the secrets of the cosmos. (AFP)

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A group of Japanese researchers were among this year's winners of the Ig Nobel Prize for oddball science Thursday for discovering that a unicellular amoeboid organism can work out the shortest distance in a maze. (Kyodo)

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