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  • The Space Barley Beer from Japan's Sapporo Breweries is made using space barley - the progenies of spaceflight barley seeds
    Astronomy
    Space Beer touches down in Japan
    Japan’s Sapporo Breweries is launching the world’s first beer produced using malt made 100 percent from “space barley,” which is the fourth generation descendant of the Haruna Nija malting barley that was kept in space for five months during 2006.
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    Wellness and Healthy Living
    The US$40,000 Robotic Bed
    One of the stand-outs at the IRex robotics expo in Japan this week was the Yurina Care Robot from Japan Logic Machine. Essentially a robotic bed, the 3.5 million Yen (around US$41,000) Yurina reconfigures electronically, on-the-fly and does 4kmh