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The climate crisis is hitting home with more frequent extreme weather events. Companies, particularly those in high-emission industries, are major contributors to global carbon emissions, therefore making them key players in the…

On Thursday, June 13, 2024, a delegation led by the Ambassador of the European Union (EU) to Japan, Jean-Eric Paquet, visited Ito Campus, blessed with the refreshingly fine weather at the beginning of summer. The…

In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers have discovered that the turbulence in the thermosphere exhibits the same physical laws as the wind in the lower atmosphere. Furthermore, wind in the thermosphere…

Researchers from Kyushu University have uncovered new variations to a traditional illusion, based on how we perceive the motion of flashing lights. Published on May 21 in i-Perception, the findings show that when three light flashes…

On June 5, Quacquarelli Symonds released the QS World University Rankings 2025. Kyushu University was ranked 167th out of the 1,503 universities and other higher education institutions from more than 100 countries worldwide, placing it in…

As humanity grapples with the fight against climate change, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is urgently necessary. One way to achieve this is through the carbon offset market, where organizations or individuals can buy credits…

Researchers from the University of Toronto, Canada, and Kyushu University, Japan, have found that increased neuron formation and the subsequent rewiring of neural circuits in the hippocampus through exercise or genetic manipulation…

From the rain drops rolling down your window, to the fluid running across a COVID rapid test, we cannot go a day without observing the world of fluid dynamics. Naturally, how liquids traverse across, and through, surfaces are a…

On March 13th, at the Jonathan KS Choi Cultural Center of Japan on Kyushu University's Ito Campus, Kyushu University's Faculty of Humanities and Japan’s International Institute for Digital Humanities jointly hosted an…

On April 22, 2024, the Kyushu Okinawa Open University (KOOU), an organization of 11 national university corporations in the Kyushu-Okinawa region, and The University Academic Alliance in Taiwan (UAAT), an academic platform for…