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Experiencing higher levels of gratitude could lead to lower financial stress, new research published in De Gruyter Brill’s Open Psychology suggests.

Journal: Open Psychology

10-Sep-2025

UVic climate researchers take us from projection to prediction

University of Victoria

A newly implemented method can significantly reduce uncertainty in future global warming projections. As a result, these “constrained projections” should be viewed not just as hypothetical possibilities, but as skillful predictions.

Journal: Science Advances

9-Sep-2025

Explore or exploit: Research that decodes animal decision-making earns NIH grant

University of Maryland Baltimore County
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers led by Noah Cowan at Johns Hopkins University have secured NIH funding to probe how animals alternate between "explore" (sensing) and "exploit" (task-oriented) behaviors in uncertain environments, using the weakly electric glass knifefish as a model. The team includes researchers from four universities who will integrate their expertise in neuroscience, math, engineering, and machine learning to build on 2023 findings in Nature Machine Intelligence that revealed the explore/exploit pattern across species from amoebas to humans. The project aims to decode decision triggers, with implications for robotics and medicine.

Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

9-Sep-2025

REDIMadrid launches End-to-End Quantum Secure Data Transport Project with Ciena

IMDEA Software Institute
Business Announcement

HANOVER, Md., U.S.A. and MADRID, Spain – September 9, 2025 – REDIMadrid, the research network of Comunidad de Madrid, managed by IMDEA Software, recently collaborated with Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) on the optical network foundation required to launch its End-to-End Quantum Secure Data Transport Project. The project leverages Ciena’s 6500 photonic line system, which allows a quantum channel to operate seamlessly alongside existing Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) traffic on the same fiber. This marks a significant milestone in the realm of quantum secure data transport by demonstrating the ability to use Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) technology over existing optical fiber networks.