Empirical research is being carried out for revolutionary air conditioning technology that will contribute to solving environmental issues. At the forefront of these endeavors is NAGAHIRO Tsuyoshi, project professor and director of the Center for Smarttech System Co-creation in the Carbon Neutral Promotion Headquarters. Air conditioning systems enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI), or “AI smart air conditioning,” are being incorporated at facilities that use enormous amounts of energy for heating and cooling, such as airports and department stores, and have achieved significant energy saving results. We sat down with Nagahiro, who is engaged in everything from corporate collaborations to venture start-ups and practical education for promoting social implementation, to hear more about his current research and prospects for the future.

Creating fuel and chemicals from agricultural waste to revolutionize the industrial structure, that’s the aim of the cutting-edge biomanufacturing research activity based at Kobe University. One key player in this research is Professor OGINO Chiaki, a bioproduction engineering expert at Kobe University’s Graduate School of Engineering. Efforts in a joint research project with agriculture giant Indonesia to attempt to ease climate change and achieve clean energy are gathering attention. We asked Ogino about his ambitions regarding his research and his outlook on social implementation.

For more than 30 years, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has helped shape the future of high-temperature alloys, translating fundamental materials research into industrial impact. That expertise proved pivotal for Duraloy Technologies, whose long-standing partnership with ORNL transformed the company’s trajectory and set a benchmark for sustained public-private collaboration.

To help make commercial fusion energy a reality, PPPL leads the StellFoundry project, which uses AI to sift through enormous amounts of data to determine which fusion system configurations are best. This project aligns with the U.S. Department of Energy’s new Genesis Mission, a major DOE initiative to accelerate scientific discovery and enhance national security using AI, as well as with the DOE’s recently released Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap.

Jeffrey Ellin, a 46-year-old Baltimore resident and an avid long-distance runner, brought himself to the Levi Watkins, Jr., M.D., Outpatient Center in February 2020 with a small cosmetic complaint that would unexpectedly become a years-long challenge for him and his physicians. 

For astronauts, coming back to Earth is one of the most dangerous parts of any mission. A new research facility addresses that challenge by creating streams of gas that flow at thousands of miles per hour and burn at temperatures of thousands of degrees Fahrenheit.

In her 35 years as a psychologist, NTNU researcher Audrey van der Meer has studied everything from baby swimming to what infants learn before they are born. At the core of her work is the idea that babies are born to learn – and the key to their learning is movement.