A large neutrino observatory in Japan has been heavily damaged by a freak accident. The Super-Kamiokande Observatory was designed to detect neutrinos by using a vast array of photomultiplier tubes.

The Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory in Japan has received a relatively simple upgrade that should allow it to look further back in time. A rare-earth element called gadolinium has been added to ...

Banner image: Interior of the Super-Kamiokande observatory, which detects neutrinos in the T2K Experiment. | Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research) The University of Tokyo ...

SXS—Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes—is an ongoing scientific collaboration that has been generating simulations of dramatic events in space, particularly mergers of binary black hole systems, for ...

The University of Tokyo has created the Next-generation Neutrino Science Organization (NNSO) to promote the construction of a new neutrino facility in Japan called Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K). The ...

Since that day, LIGO — composed of two highly sensitive laser interferometers located in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, ...

Yoji Totsuka had planned for a quiet 2002, as he neared the end of his stint as director of Japan's Kamioka Observatory. But those plans were shattered in November 2001, along with almost 7,000 ...

Yoji Totsuka has been named today as the next director general of the High Energy Accelerator Research Laboratory (KEK) in Japan. Totsuka is currently director of the Kamioka Observatory and a ...

Later this year a new detector is set to begin hunting for gravitational waves – ripples in the very fabric of spacetime. The Kamioka Gravitational-wave Detector (KAGRA) in Japan will join the Laser ...