Albany, NY — NY Creates today announced its participation in the newly funded Manufacturable and Resilient superconducting QUantum Information Systems (MARQUIS) Quantum Leap Challenge Institute (QLCI), a major National Science Foundation initiative led by Princeton University that aims to overcome one of the most significant barriers to practical quantum computing.

While social media algorithms have become excellent at matching a user’s viewing habits with targeted, personalized content, psychologists at The University of Texas at Dallas have determined that these algorithms may have a negative influence on a user’s mental health. The results of their novel study confirmed that participants with more depressive symptoms are provided recommendations that lean more depressive, and their brain activity — as determined by frontal alpha asymmetry — is characteristic of depression. This is distinct from their brain activity while watching videos that are trending generally. Instead of after-the-fact reflections, researchers looked at real-time emotion processing and documented reactions to watching personalized recommendations.

For the first time, researchers have used data from narwhals to document how Atlantic water reaches deep into fjords along Greenland’s east coast. A new study from the University of Copenhagen sheds light on a poorly studied region, and the findings could have important implications for understanding and predicting climate change.

Binghamton University welcomes four Simons Empire Faculty Fellows in mathematics and physics. The Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International established the fellowship program to stimulate faculty hiring in mathematics and the sciences across New York state

Mathematicians knew that the brain teaser Digit Party displayed impossible "perfect" scores on some of its daily puzzles, but couldn’t figure out how to fix it until now.