A Chinese scientist, who claimed to have made the world’s first gene-edited babies, has been missing. He gave a presentation on his experiment at a conference in Hong Kong last week, which triggered controversy in the medical community.

Tasuku Honjo, a 76-year-old professor at Kyoto University, was awarded on Monday the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with U.S. immunologist James Allison for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.

A prototype quantum computer developed by Japanese researchers will be freely available over the internet starting from November 27th. The machine can calculate 100 times faster than a conventional supercomputer.

The US and South Korean militaries said on Sunday that North Korea launched a ballistic missile from the country’s east coast, but it blew up almost immediately.

A Japanese cell biologist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discoveries on how cells break down and recycle their own contents, a process known as autophagy.

Two Japanese researchers were jointly awarded the Ig Nobel Perception prize on Thursday for a paper on how objects look different when one bends over and views them upside down between one’s legs.