An Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team observed that when mice were allowed to freely consume bread, wheat flour, and rice flour alongside their standard chow, they stopped eating the regular food almost entirely due to a strong preference for the carbohydrates. As a result, their body weight and fat mass increased even though their total caloric intake did not rise significantly.

A joint research team led by Professor PARK Kyoung-Duck and Associate Director SUH Yung Doug of the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has succeeded in realizing a high-efficiency quantum light source that emits bright lights even at room temperature. The achievement overcomes a longstanding limitation of two-dimensional semiconductors—atomically thin materials typically about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair—which previously required either cryogenic temperatures or complex electrical gating structures to produce efficient light emission.

Adelaide University researchers have successfully tested a new type of portable atomic clock at sea for the first time, using technology that could help power the next generation of navigation, communications and scientific systems.

A research team led by Dr. Lee Young Jun of the RAMP Convergence Research Group at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST; President Oh Sang-rok), in collaboration with research teams led by Professor Yun Hongseok of Hanyang University and Professor Kang Junhee of Pusan National University, focused on lignin-a wood byproduct discarded in the timber industry-to overcome these limitations. The research team designed and developed a carbon-based catalyst capable of selectively generating hydrogen peroxide through electrochemical reactions using lignin, and demonstrated hydrogen peroxide production with a selectivity exceeding 95% under experimental conditions.A research team led by Dr. Lee Young Jun of the RAMP Convergence Research Group at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST; President Oh Sang-rok), in collaboration with research teams led by Professor Yun Hongseok of Hanyang University and Professor Kang Junhee of Pusan National University, focused on lignin-a wood byproduct discarded in the timber industry-to overcome these limitations. The research team designed and developed a carbon-based catalyst capable of selectively generating hydrogen peroxide through electrochemical reactions using lignin, and demonstrated hydrogen peroxide production with a selectivity exceeding 95% under experimental conditions.

Seoul National University College of Engineering (SNU Engineering) announced that a joint research team led by Prof. Sunghoon Kwon (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SNU) and Prof. Sang Wan Kim (Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Seoul National University College of Medicine and Boramae Medical Center) has discovered a new mechanism and drug combination strategy that can effectively treat osteoporosis, a representative disease of super-aging societies.

The research findings were published on April 2nd in Bone Research, a world-leading journal in the field of bone metabolism.

Curious about how AI is reshaping 6G communication? A new Engineering study explores generative AI’s role in semantic communication, moving past traditional bit transmission to focus on semantic meaning. It tests an LLM-powered system with huge efficiency gains and spotlights real-world uses, while tackling key tech challenges for future 6G rollouts.

Materials research suffers from trial-and-error synthesis and fabrication, while the resulting numerical datasets fail to provide feedback for semantic recipe optimization. Therefore, the integration of a recipe language model (RLM) with robotic boxes enables the RLM and robotics continuously improve one another, as a physical AI for the materials intelligence.

Boston University’s Ioannis Paschalidis Inducted into 2026 AIMBE College of Fellows

A custom-built artificial intelligence system developed by Rice researchers helped uncover how bacterial communities self-organize.