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Sake and flavours: a journey through Tohoku

As its Japanese name suggests, the region of Tohoku extends to the northeast of the archipelago. It includes the six prefectures of Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata and Fukushima, located between Tokyo to the south and the island of Hokkaido to the north.

Cities should stick to the basics of governing

Worth. FIFA claims the national impact will exceed $17 billion in GDP.   While FIFA and host cities often tout massive returns to justify public funding, research consistently questions these optimistic projections — particularly for events like the World Cup.

Probing the quantum nature of black holes through entropy

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy remains positive and vanishes at extremely low temperatures, just like ordinary quantum systems. The finding