The two-day festival will feature great live music from some 3,000 musicians - including several groups from Tohoku University.
At stake is access to the revenue from a 10 trillion JPY government project for research activities.
The Windnauts achieved a distance of 42837.78m, breaking the student record of 38010.28m held by Nihon University
This year's programme featured courses in robotics, structural materials engineering (SMEC) and bio-materials engineering (BMEC).
Zirconium nitride is a good material for the oxygen reduction in hydrogen fuel cells. But scientists had little understanding about why this was so.
The discovery, made by a group of researchers, could revolutionize next generation electronics.
A lab-grown model shows how the brain's 'modular architecture' enables quick switching between local, out-of-synch nerve activity and synchronised group activity occurring across the entire network.
Using an innovative AI method known as deep reinforcement learning, a research group has virtually simulated disrupted water flow.