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Red Spider Nebula

Handout photo dated on October 26, 2025 shows Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured never-before-seen details of the Red Spider Nebula, a planetary nebula, in this image released on Oct. 26, 2025. NIRCam is Webb’s primary near-infrared imager, providing high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy for a wide variety of investigations. Webb’s new view of the Red Spider Nebula reveals for the first time the full extent of the nebula’s outstretched lobes, which form the ‘legs’ of the spider. These lobes, shown in blue, are traced by light emitted from H2 molecules, which contain two hydrogen atoms bonded together. Stretching over the entirety of NIRCam’s field of view, these lobes are shown to be closed, bubble-like structures that each extend about 3 light-years. Outflowing gas from the center of the nebula has inflated these massive bubbles over thousands of years. Photo by ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technolo via ABAC

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84% success rate for brain-tied remote control of TV

OSAKA, Japan - A man with a brain-computer interface device attached to the head operates a TV set remotely by combining thought and near-infrared spectroscopy with an 84% success rate derived in a test at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Seika, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 4, 2014.

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Nobel winner Tanaka to develop new mass spectroscopy device

KYOTO, Japan - Koichi Tanaka, co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shows off his card at a news conference in Kyoto on March 28. Tanaka, who formally launched his research institute, said he hopes to develop a new mass spectroscopy device that can contribute to swift analysis of illnesses and development of new drugs.

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Double Giken's Communication Tool for ALS Patients

Double Giken has developed a technology to identify the words a patient thinks from the blood flow in the brain and project them on a screen for ALS patients who cannot move their eyelids or fingers. The technology is based on a device that uses near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to determine "yes/no" from brain activity. The patient selects one word at a time and only the vowel sound of the word to be communicated, and the number of words is used to analogize the candidate words to be communicated and show them on the screen. The system, which consists of a personal computer and a terminal, will go on sale in September at the earliest. It was developed with the support of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) in collaboration with Professor Naoki Tanaka of Toyo University and others. Photo taken on June 4, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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84% success rate for brain-tied remote control of TV

OSAKA, Japan - A man with a brain-computer interface device attached to the head operates a TV set remotely by combining thought and near-infrared spectroscopy with an 84% success rate derived in a test at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Seika, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 4, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Nobel winner Tanaka to develop new mass spectroscopy device

KYOTO, Japan - Koichi Tanaka, co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shows off his card at a news conference in Kyoto on March 28. Tanaka, who formally launched his research institute, said he hopes to develop a new mass spectroscopy device that can contribute to swift analysis of illnesses and development of new drugs. (Kyodo)