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26-Nov-2025

Weather commons as collaborative weather management

Ehime University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Climate change and extreme weather drive a globally growing interest in technologies to control the weather. Japanese government research seeks to harness such technology to reduce storm and flood damage. Yet such interventions could fundamentally change the relationship between people and the weather. New research published in npj Climate Action proposes “Weather Commons” as a democratic, community-centric approach that puts people in charge, and calls for a broad public conversation about weather control.

Journal: npj Climate Action
Funder: Japan Science and Technology Agency

26-Nov-2025

Covid lockdown linked to increase in early child development issues

University of Edinburgh
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study of almost 258,000 children in Scotland found that, after accounting for pre-pandemic trends, there was an increase in the proportion of toddlers showing any developmental issues throughout the period of lockdown and social distancing measures between March 2020 and August 2021.

Journal: The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council

25-Nov-2025

Six University of Tennessee faculty among world’s most highly cited researchers

University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Grant and Award Announcement

Six faculty members from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville — five from the Tickle College of Engineering and one from the College of Arts and Sciences — have been named to Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list for 2025, an honor bestowed on only one in 1,000 of the world’s scientists and social scientists.

25-Nov-2025

Collaborating minds think alike, processing information in similar ways in a shared task

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Whether great minds think alike is up for debate, but the collaborating minds of two people working on a shared task process information alike, according to a study published November 25^th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Denise Moerel and colleagues from Western Sydney University in Australia.

Journal: PLOS Biology

25-Nov-2025

Too sick to socialize: How the brain and immune system promote staying in bed

Picower Institute at MIT
Peer-Reviewed Publication

MIT researchers have discovered how an immune system molecule triggers neurons in a specific brain circuit to shut down social behavior in mice modeling infection

Journal: Cell
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, Freedom Together Foundation

25-Nov-2025

When students belong, they’re more likely to earn a degree

Wake Forest University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Students are more likely to attain their degree when they report a stronger sense of belonging in their first year of college, according to a new study by Wake Forest University psychology professor Shannon Brady.

Journal: Educational Researcher

25-Nov-2025

Media, sentiment, power: New study on discrimination by public authorities

University of Konstanz
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a recent study, researchers from the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz demonstrate: Negative media coverage of certain migrant groups can lead to discrimination in the allocation of the Citizen's Benefit – especially in regions where migration is generally viewed with skepticism.

Journal: Comparative Political Studies