High‑throughput workflows have revolutionized experimental heterogeneous catalysis by enabling rapid, parallel synthesis and screening of catalyst libraries. This review traces the evolution of high‑throughput technology from manual experiments in the early 1900s to today‘s autonomous, artificial intelligence‑driven platforms that integrate robotics, machine learning, and self‑driving laboratories. The state‑of‑the‑art mode encompasses five key steps: experiment design, catalyst synthesis, catalyst testing and screening, catalyst characterizations, and data handling and analysis. Despite its transformative potential, high‑throughput workflows face critical pitfalls—including gaps between microscale reactor results and industrial performance, pressure limitations, and chemical information disparity in funnel‑shaped screening—that must be addressed to fully realize its promise for rational catalyst discovery.

Kyoto, Japan -- The development of cooking was a major milestone in the evolution of human civilization, as it made our food easier to digest and thus more energy efficient. Heating our food can also kill harmful pathogens, and simply makes certain foods taste better. Overcooking, on the other hand, can have adverse effects, particularly on proteins.

Severe heating can modify proteins in a way that reduces their nutritional value. For this reason we do not tend to overcook our food, but some of the processed food we now consume may be subject to severe heating during production.

Scientists have suspected that a diet including high-temperature-treated proteins may have nutritional deficiencies, yet how exactly long-term intake of these treated proteins affects physiological and behavioral responses has not been well understood. This motivated a team of researchers at Kyoto University to investigate how such a diet would affect mice.

In International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, researchers have flipped a long-standing manufacturing curse on its head, using the destructive friction heat of high-speed cutting to trigger a chemical reaction that lets diamond tools carve brittle crystals as smoothly as butter.

- A joint team from KAIST, Yonsei University, and other collaborators develops a ‘universal charge injector’ that injects charge into two different types of ultrathin semiconductors using a single material  

- A single injector material replaces separately optimized contacts for n-type and p-type semiconductors, boosting the maximum drive current of p-type transistors by more than 1,000-fold over conventional devices

- Opens the door to three-dimensional integration by stacking atomically thin semiconductors in multiple layers, expected to be used in next-generation AI and low-power semiconductors

Kyoto, Japan -- You may not know what roll waves are, but you've probably seen them on a rainy day. When it rains, these traveling waves appear on steep asphalt pavements, slowly making their way down the slope. Because roll waves propagate without deforming and are typically characterized by abrupt discontinuities, they play an important role in hydraulic engineering. Understanding unsteady flows like roll waves is crucial for the design, management, and safety of hydraulic structures such as dam spillway chutes.

However, despite one accurate line of research developed by mathematicians, the partial differential equations governing roll waves have remained a niche and "astonishingly" under-explored area of research, according to an international team of scientists at Kyoto University and German Jordanian University. This group realized that a rigorous mathematical investigation was not only compelling, but unavoidable.

"We noticed the striking gap between the mathematical and visual beauty of roll‑wave phenomena, and the civil engineering community's persistently superficial understanding of them," says first author Koichi Unami. "It became difficult to ignore how confidently steady‑state assumptions were repeated despite clear evidence to the contrary."

University of Melbourne Emeritus Professor Graeme Clark AC – whose breakthroughs have brought the gift of hearing to over 650,000 people globally – has been jointly awarded the 2026 Honda Prize.

The Prize has been awarded jointly to surgeon and scientist Professor Clark and Austrian electrical engineer Dr Ingeborg Hochmair. Working independently, both spearheaded the research and development, clinical application and worldwide adoption of the multichannel cochlear implant, commonly known as the bionic ear.

UVA’s Yu Meng wins NSF CAREER Award to help AI learn from messy, incomplete data — for better results in everything from accurate hospital records to scientific discovery.