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.

The grant will enable researchers to develop next-generation cryptographic protocols to protect sensitive communications and digital systems against future threats from quantum computers. The work aims to strengthen digital security as quantum technology advances, developing more efficient and scalable tools for safeguarding information and supporting complex security applications.

A Johns Hopkins Medicine-led research team has received an award of up to $52.1 million over four years from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), part of the Department of Health and Human Services, to better understand the rules that decide what shape a protein takes — and how those rules could support the identification of earlier diagnostics and therapeutic targets when proteins fold the wrong way. The team will start this work, which will be publicly shared through open-access resources, by studying Parkinson’s disease and Ewing sarcoma, a rare cancer of bone and soft tissue in children and young adults.