As climate change intensifies harmful algal blooms worldwide, an international team led by Hiroshima University has developed a hybrid modeling approach that combines algal movement simulations, AI, and long-term monitoring data to sharpen forecasts of these bloom events—linked to environmental damage, mass fish die-offs, economic losses, and risks to human health.

Electricity accounts for around 70 percent of a hydrogen plant’s operating costs. With current technologies, roughly one-third of the electricity supplied to a hydrogen plant is lost as heat and electrical losses. This share can be significantly reduced through careful design of the electrification system and by utilising waste heat from transformers, rectifiers, electrolysers and compressors. In Finland, Hitachi Energy and the University of Vaasa have launched a research project Optimized Electric Power Chain for Electrolyser Systems (OEPCES) to improve the efficiency of transformers – and thus the entire system – by capturing waste heat and using it either for district heating or in the hydrogen plant’s own processes.

The Chinese Society of Endocrinology has recently released an evidence-based guideline on physical activity and exercise therapy for Chinese adult patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). The guideline consolidates the latest scientific evidence and expert consensus to address the critical role of physical activity and exercise in diabetes prevention and management, which is available online in the Journal of Sport and Health Science on January 12, 2026.

Nuclear fusion technology solutions, the generation and use of hydrogen, as well as the calibration and collaboration of industrial robots – researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) will present innovative technologies at Hannover Messe, Hall 11, Stand B06 from April 20 to 24, 2026. In addition, additively manufactured multi-material ceramics, electrochemical synthesis processes, and quantum technologies will be showcased and KIT students will present their hyperloop concept.