A new analysis of approximately 600,000 research papers reveals structural limits to single-country security oversight of dual-use research and identifies trade-offs that policymakers face when strengthening such oversight.

KAIST (President Kwang Hyung Lee) announced today that Professor Seokbeom Kwon of the School of Business and Technology Management has published a large-scale empirical analysis examining the structural limitations of tightening security oversight on dual-use research and its potential cost to scientific progress. The study appears in Science on June 5, 2026.

In his mission to normalise the use of ‘misfit wood’, Aalto University architect and researcher Jaakko Torvinen has shown how standard, business-as-usual calculation methods can predict load-bearing capacity for organically shaped logs. The research is one step towards helping cut the millions of tonnes of imperfect wood that go to the scrap heap, instead of into use as functional, economically viable and aesthetically desirable options in construction.

Kumamoto University has announced the establishment of the Kumadai Research Institute (KURI)—a university-launched venture, aiming to build a sustainable global ecosystem where talent, technology, and industry continuously circulate, positioning Kumamoto at the center of the global semiconductor stage.

- A Cambridge-led team has developed a way to engineer better vaccines that could provide broad protection from thousands of variants of viruses - such as coronaviruses or Ebola - in a single vaccine.

- This represents a fundamental new vaccine technology that could prevent future pandemics before they begin.

- The team used the technology to engineer a vaccine designed to protect against a wide range of coronaviruses, including the cause of the COVID pandemic.

- The results of the first-in-human clinical trial of this technology found it is safe and well tolerated.

Carbon Research has achieved a new milestone in the latest Scopus CiteScore performance, with its 2025 CiteScore Tracker rising to 19.2, up from 14.0 in the 2024 CiteScore release. The new result reflects the journal’s growing visibility, strong citation performance, and expanding role in advancing carbon science for environmental sustainability, engineering innovation, and global change research.

A new study shows how leftover lavender distillation residue can be converted into useful biochar through a science-guided process that balances product quality, energy use, and environmental impacts.

A three-year field study shows that pairing biochar with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can improve soil health, nutrient supply, microbial diversity, and maize productivity in reclaimed mining land

Soil organic matter is often described as the foundation of soil fertility. It helps soils hold nutrients, retain water, support microbial life, and store carbon. Yet scientists are still working to understand how different farm-based carbon inputs, such as crop straw and biochar, change the molecular structure of soil organic matter over time.

Wetlands are the world's largest natural source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. In a new study from The University of Texas at Austin, researchers have newly identified 160 million small wetlands across the globe and found that they have a substantial collective impact, accounting for 24% of the world’s total non-forested wetland emissions of methane.