Nikki Thiele, a staff scientist in the Chemical Sciences Division of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received a 2026 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. The five-year National Institutes of Health grant supports innovative research with the potential for broad impact on biomedical and behavioral science. Thiele will develop innovative chelator designs to improve targeted radiopharmaceuticals.

A new LMU study shows: Three-quarters of the estimated global potential for new forests to capture CO₂ is threatened by significant social and institutional challenges.

Kyushu University researchers have developed an AI-based method to measure how closely corporate disclosures match the ESG issues that matter financially to each industry. Applied to Japan’s food and beverage sector, it showed that companies place greater emphasis on social-related topics, while environmental disclosure remains relatively limited. Priorities also shifted as reporting requirements changed. The study offers insights for investors, firms, and standard setters seeking to evaluate and design effective sustainability reporting regimes.

As Earth’s orbital traffic reaches an all-time high, a West Virginia University researcher is working to sharpen space weather forecasting, and protect satellites and the services that depend on them from devastating solar disruptions.

Modern education increasingly focuses on technological rationality, emphasizing control, efficiency, prediction, and measurable outcomes. A recent study proposes a “philosophy of pathos” that considers suffering, vulnerability, uncertainty and human fragility as important factors in education. Drawing on Japanese philosophy shaped through intersections between Eastern and Western thoughts, the study uses the “knowledge of pathos” and “logic of lemma” to envision education that can respond more meaningfully to suffering, ambiguity, global catastrophe, and crisis.