Research from São Paulo State University shows that carbetocin, when administered before social stress situations, prevents anxiety in laboratory rats without having direct anxiolytic effects.

Cash transfer programs, which provide money directly to recipients, are growing in the United States, but face significant scrutiny, with questions over their value. In addition, some contend that these payments can lead to harm—recipients, they claim, will use the cash to immediately buy alcohol or drugs, leading to injury or death. However, a new 11-year study of a long-standing cash-transfer program in Alaska finds no evidence that direct cash payments increase the risk of traumatic injury or death.

Researchers from the University of Kansas surveyed women who work in the public sector about their emotional participation and regulation in their work. They found women reported suppressing negative emotions more than positive. And while they generally feel supported in their work and enjoy what they do, regulating their true emotional selves did not necessairly lead to achieving their career aims. This can help better understand how to support women in public service, ensuring job satisfaction and better results, researchers argue.

On Safer Internet Day 2026, researchers from the University of Plymouth and University of Nottingham - who have been studying changes in internet and device security for more than two decades - say the majority of systems being used by technology companies place an undue burden on users to understand different and difficult security rules.

A new study by the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" (University of Konstanz) and the University of Lucerne shows: labour migrants who live where they work enjoy greater acceptance by locals than cross-border commuters – although their competition with the local workforce for jobs is comparable. The decisive reason for the difference is less related to economic factors than to perceptions of participation and fairness, which are also influenced by misinformation.

Medical artificial intelligence (AI) is often described as a way to make patient care safer by helping clinicians manage information. A new study by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and collaborators confronts a critical vulnerability: when a medical lie enters the system, can AI pass it on as if it were true? Analyzing more than a million prompts across nine leading language models, the researchers found that these systems can repeat false medical claims when they appear in realistic hospital notes or social-media health discussions. The findings, published in the February 9 online issue of The Lancet Digital Health [10.1016/j.landig.2025.100949], suggest that current safeguards do not reliably distinguish fact from fabrication once a claim is wrapped in familiar clinical or social-media language.