Akira Tsuchiyama, Ph.D.
Professor, Research Organization of Science and Technology

On April 22, 2021, a surprising announcement was made by Akira Tsuchiyama’s research group. They claimed to have discovered carbon dioxide (CO2)-rich liquid water in the Sutter’s Mill meteorite that fell to California in 2012. In the blink of an eye, news about this report that comes close to determining our solar system’s origin spread across the globe.