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Your social media feed is built to agree with you. What if it didn’t?

University of Rochester
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research from the University of Rochester has found that social media echo chambers might not be a fact of online life. Published in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, the study argues that they are partly a design choice—one that could be softened with a surprisingly modest change: introducing more randomness into what people see.

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

Where did that raindrop come from? Tracing the movement of water molecules using isotopes

Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, uses a multi-model approach to improve climate modeling. Isotope analysis allows researchers to track the global water cycle and identify changes in atmospheric dynamics in a warming climate. Their simulation data, identification of parameter sensitivity, and discovery of ongoing challenges in understanding the behavior of atmospheric water vapor provide a baseline for better general climate models in the future.

Exploring why some children struggle to learn math

Society for Neuroscience
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Kids with math learning differences may have issues not only with processing numbers, but also with updating and adapting their thinking approaches as they discriminate between number amounts.

Journal: JNeurosci
Funder: Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute

Math learning disability affects how the brain tackles problems, Stanford Medicine study shows

Stanford Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

On simple math problems, even if they’re getting correct answers, kids with a math learning disability aren’t using their brains the same way as their peers.

Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

The results of popular LLM ranking platforms can be skewed by just a few data points, possibly providing an unreliable report about which LLM would perform best in real situations, according MIT researchers who also developed a way to test the rankings and identify these influential data points.

Funder: Office of Naval Research, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, National Science Foundation, Amazon, CSAIL Seed Award

Baycrest study reveals how imagery styles shape pathways into STEM and why gender gaps persist

Baycrest Corporate Centre for Geriatric Care
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Toronto, February 9, 2026 – New research is proving persistent gender gaps in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers can’t be explained by academic ability alone. A recent Baycrest study suggests that success in STEM careers is shaped by different cognitive strengths and that these strengths relate differently to career outcomes for women and men.

54 finalists named for the 2026 Hertz Fellowships

Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
Grant and Award Announcement

The Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing American scientific and technological leadership, today announced 54 finalists for the 2026 Hertz Fellowships in applied sciences, mathematics and engineering.

‘Hidden’ bugs in our gut appear key to good health, finds global study

University of Cambridge
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An understudied group of bacteria in our gut microbiome appears to play a central role in keeping us healthy, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge.

Journal: Cell Host & Microbe

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