Nagoya University

07/08/2026

[Research] 🔊 Sitting in a quiet room? You still can't escape hums and rumbles coming from sources such as ACs, water pumps, and even distant traffic.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3TYbPLK

Nagoya University researchers have found that this low-frequency environmental noise (below 100 Hz — about the pitch of a kick drum) can potentially damage kidney blood vessels. In a study performed in mice, the team, led by Takumi Kagawa and Masashi Kato from the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, discovered that this noise triggers a spike in endothelin-1, a molecule that constricts blood vessels, leading to swollen, damaged glomeruli (the kidney's filtering units). A hypertension drug that blocks endothelin's effects reversed much of the damage.

The findings suggest pitch — not just loudness — matters when assessing noise's health risks, and point to new directions for understanding chronic kidney disease risk from everyday environmental sound.

Read the journal article: https://doi.org/rjd9

29/07/2026

Before a midsummer storm rolls in, cumulonimbus clouds leave campus looking like a fairytale landscape.

29/07/2026

[Research] 👨‍🔬⚗️ What happens when you cut the inside of a flat carbon molecule to create 10-carbon rings? New chiral nanocarbons that glow, resist heat, and trap carbon dioxide. Read more in Nature Communications. https://bit.ly/4pMJzaL https://doi.org/rhnm

28/07/2026

[News] Nagoya University's School and Graduate School of Economics hosted the Students' Workshop on International Development with the Asian Development Bank. About 50 students from across Aichi Prefecture spent weeks preparing policy proposals, presenting them to a panel of judges as part of a 60th Annual Meeting countdown event. Learn more:

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27/07/2026

Summer has arrived in Nagoya, and it is hot... really hot.

27/07/2026

[Research] 🐥 🌊 Seabirds trade survival now for more chicks next year, a trade-off mediated by migration. Field experiments on 251 wild kittiwakes in Alaska shows how these birds reallocate energy across the seasons. https://bit.ly/4wWfjwC https://doi.org/rhct

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24/07/2026

[News] Nagoya University's Graduate School of International Development hosted the ADB-Japan Scholarship Program (ADB-JSP) Conference 2026, welcoming about 250 participants from across Asia and the Pacific. ADB President Masato Kanda noted, "Development is not only about financing. It is about people." Learn more:

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22/07/2026

[Research] 👨‍🔬💊 An ancient molecule older than blood vessels may hold the key to cancer immunotherapy. Nagoya University researchers found that where complement C3 is made, not how much is in your blood, decides whether treatment works. Read more about the discovery here👇https://bit.ly/4vFOdsk https://doi.org/rgns

22/07/2026

[Feature] Nagoya University is working with an industry partner to forecast solar flares, combining physics based prediction with artificial intelligence. As interest in long term lunar missions grows, the research aims to give future astronauts advance warning of radiation risks. Read more:

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21/07/2026

[News] On July 4, 2026, Nagoya University joined leaders from the Commission on Higher Education of the Philippines, the University of the Philippines System, and the University of the Philippines Los Baños to discuss the UP-NU Roadmap 2030, covering scholarships and joint research. Read more:

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