ELSI Science-Art Project: The Complexity in the Simplicity

ELSI Science-Art Collaborative Project featured Kayo Nomura as the ELSI Artist in Resident for FY2023. She explored the complex systems in the Origins of Life as the central theme and conducted seminars, workshops, and live painting during the residency.

Nurturing graduate students with science communication skills

Communicating about life beyond Earth and other big news

ELSI Science-Art Project: Universe; Celebration of Life

ELSI Science-Art Project with the artist Madoka Naito aims to explore and expand the framework of the science language through active discussions and exchange of perceptions between the artist and researchers about life, Earth and the universe, and a workshop that reflects the discussions.

Placing science outreach centre-stage in Japan

Interview with ELSI's Director of Communications, Thilina Heenatigala

ELSI graduate course tackles fundamental questions of life

Interview with Professor Tomoaki Matsuura and Professor Ryuhei Nakamura

The dawn of evolution: ELSI’s quest for extra-terrestrial life

Interview with new ELSI Director, Yasuhito Sekine

Ten years of ELSI: Earth, life and a new research culture in Japan

Interview with former ELSI Director, Kei Hirose

Role of ELSI’s CRAY computer cluster

The CRAY XC30, which has continued to run since the establishment of ELSI, is a computer cluster with 960 CPUs. It will be replaced for performance and other reasons but has been a significant part of my Earth & planetary science research.