Research Topics

Body clock found to control inflammatory responses in macrophagesBody clock regulator BMAL1 transports a fatty acid-oxidation enzyme into the cell nucleus, triggering macrophage inflammation, opening possibilities for time-based therapies

Lecturer Akito Tsuruta
Faculty of Phramaceutical Sciences

Q-AOS Brown Bag Seminar #235: Health Issues Among Working Women: Why Is the Healthy Worker Effect Difficult to Observe in Japan?

Off Campus

Developing a theoretical model to understand how isotopes change spectroscopy resultsResearchers investigate how oxygen isotopes in forsterite (Mg2SiO4) affect Raman spectroscopy results to develop a theoretical framework for better interpretation of spectral data

Associate Professor Masashi Arakawa
Faculty of Science

Four new international collaborative research projects launch under the RENKEI Consortium

Favorable lifestyle and health linked to lower dementia risk even in people with a genetic risk factorA large Japanese study suggests that favorable lifestyle and health conditions are linked to lower dementia risk in people with no or one APOE ε4 allele, while those with two alleles may require different preventive or therapeutic approaches

Professor Toshiharu Ninomiya
Faculty of Medical Sciences

FY2027 KAKENHI Online Seminar

Off Campus

France-Japan workshop held at Sorbonne UniversityInternational joint research laboratory OPHELIA launches

Seven-second X-ray scan accurately detects severity of heart valve regurgitation in patients with repaired congenital heart defectsDynamic chest radiography bridges the gap between echocardiography and cardiac MRI—expanding diagnostic options when cardiac MRI is unavailable or contraindicated

Assistant Professor Yuzo Yamasaki
Kyushu University Hospital Radiology Center

Q-AOS Brown Bag Seminar #234: Roleplay as Human Technology

Off Campus

How Alaska Native communities navigate a potential $170 billion gold mineJapanese researchers find that simple ’support’ or ’opposition’ cannot capture the full complexity of Alaska Native communities’ decision-making

Associate Professor Hiroko Ikuta
International Student Center

Supporting lives through psychotherapy, Dohsa-houDiscover the Research Article 13―Reika Nomura, Faculty of Human-Environment Studies

Kyushu University and DENSO IT Laboratory propose new technology for smarter Indirect Time-of-Flight camerasBy considering actual I-ToF sensor characteristics, the new noise-robust coding scheme improves 3D measurement accuracy and stability for robots and vehicles, with commercial readiness.

Scientists show how baby stars' cradles get their radial shapeNew 3D simulations show a dying star's last shockwave can weave a star-forming hub into shape

Shingo Nozaki
Graduate School of Science

Q-AOS Brown Bag Seminar #233: Can we create plant sensing technology that can replace the eyes of farmers?

Off Campus

Unstable software tests cause issues that spread across projectsResearchers find that over half of projects in the popular OpenStack ecosystem are affected by shared instability from “flaky tests”

Professor Yasutaka Kamei
Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering

Q-AOS Brown Bag Seminar #232: Designing for Accessibility: Human, Cultural, and Social Factors

Off Campus

4th ISEE Asia: International Symposium on Entrepreneurship Education in Asia

Off Campus

Using atomic clocks to reveal the quantum properties of time

Associate Professor Joshua Foo
Institute for Advanced Study

Why emus can't fly: A 'time switch' in bird embryos holds the answerA study from Kyushu University reveals how the timing of a key developmental signal shapes differences in bird breastbone formation and flight ability, deepening understanding of skeletal evolution

Lecturer Yuji Atsuta
Faculty of Science

Study proves the existence and solves the mystery of the rotating KaleidocyclesResearchers derive exact formulae to show that rotating Kaleidocycles can always be built from six or more hinged tetrahedra

Assistant Professor Shota Shigetomi
Institute of Mathematics for Industry