What can happen when a nursing home and an elementary school share a roof? Kansas State University researchers spent a year finding out at the Logan LIFE Center in rural northwest Kansas, and the early results are encouraging.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville researchers are developing a full-scale integrated charger-inverter that would use an electric vehicle’s existing traction components to enable fast charging from standard AC or DC power sources. Supported by a $3 million Department of Energy project, the technology could reduce charging costs, expand access and ease range concerns.

“My job is to collect and clean data,” says Associate Professor Tazro Ohta of Chiba University’s Institute for Advanced Academic Research, Graduate School of Medicine, and Data Science Core (DSC). As human genetic information has become easier to obtain as digitized data, analyzing it now requires advanced expertise and high-performance computing. By making his research products available as freely accessible open-source software and databases, Dr. Ohta is contributing to the development of data science. “I believe that data science needs a place where people can interact,” he told us, speaking about the importance and excitement of making databases open to the public.

Startup uses technology to transform uniforms and advertising banners into income, reducing the time it takes to connect raw materials to labor by 89%.

SAN ANTONIO — September 30, 2026 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is using a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool to improve pharmaceutical development outcomes. The SwRI-developed GAMES, or Generative Approaches for Molecular Encodings, leverages large language models (LLMs) to produce text strings representing chemical structures.

Ateneo de Manila University remains the Philippines’ highest-ranked university for the fifth consecutive year in the recently released 2027 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, placing in the 1001–1200 bracket among 2,297 institutions across 118 countries and territories. The primary engine of the Ateneo's overall global position is its research quality, with a score of 66.9—up from just 52.4 in 2024. It far outstripped its local rivals and many international institutions to land in the 705th spot for the metric worldwide.