The issuance of green bonds is intended to fund environmentally friendly projects, but it is not fully clear how they influence the environmental performance of individual issuing companies. To investigate this, researchers compared companies that issued green bonds with those that issued conventional bonds, using modeling approaches to explore various non-linear relationships.

Chen, Y., Erlwein-Sayer, C., Mamon, R., Spagnolo, F., & Spagnolo, N. (2026). The impact of green bonds on issuers' environmental performance. Quantitative Finance, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/14697688.2026.2641012   Rogemar Mamon

This research addresses the problem of pumping fluid through a horizontal slot without external energy sources, using only heat and fixed surface topography. The researchers conducted an analysis by considering grooves with a range of amplitudes and examining various groove and heating patterns on the plates bounding the slot.

Wang, W., & Floryan, J. M. (2026). Horizontal pumping using topography and heating patterns. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1034. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2026.11515   Jerzy M Floryan

Authors and publishers in the social sciences may face difficulties as the two main sets of ethical guidelines do not provide a mechanism to resolve disputes or enforce rules. This article compares the major components of the codes from the American Psychological Association and the Association of American Publishers.

Miller, R., Nyland, T., & Frewen, P. (2026). Mystical experiences in virtual reality 2: Fantasy versus realism and psychophysiological correlates.. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000475   Paul Frewen

Assessing formal thought disorder, a speech-related symptom of schizophrenia spectrum disorders, is challenging because traditional clinical rating scales are resource-intensive. To address this, researchers evaluated a framework that integrated speech pause patterns with semantic coherence metrics from three different types of recorded speech.

Chen, F., Xu, W., Li, C., Pakhomov, S., Cohen, A., Bhola, S., Yin, S., Tang, S. X., Mackinley, M., Palaniyappan, L., Ben-Zeev, D., & Cohen, T. (2026). Reading between the lines: Combining pause dynamics and semantic coherence for automated assessment of thought disorder. Neuropsychologia, 228, 109473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109473   Lena Palaniyappan

It can be difficult to detect features of psychosis, in part because speech data from individuals in the early stages of the condition is scarce. To address this, researchers collected speech samples, neuroimaging data, and clinical information from individuals in an early-stage psychosis program and from healthy controls over a 12-month period.

Bhullar, S., Mouslih, C. E., Mackinley, M., Richard, J., & Palaniyappan, L. (2026). TOPSY: A picture description dataset to examine speech, language and communication in untreated first episode psychosis. Data in Brief, 66, 112788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2026.112788   Lena Palaniyappan

Harmful algal blooms from specific microalgae cause widespread fish mortality, posing a critical threat to the aquaculture industry. This study tested the susceptibility of three types of these ichthyotoxic flagellates to two chemical agents, hydrogen peroxide and copper sulfate.

Mehdizadeh Allaf, M., Yi, T., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Erratt, K. J., Dehnavi, P., & Peerhossaini, H. (2026). Chemical Control of Ichthyotoxic Algal Blooms in Aquaculture: Assessing Algicide Impacts on Cellular Motility and Bloom Suppression. Microorganisms, 14(5), 1086. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms14051086   Hassan Peerhossaini