The naming of a recently identified plant RNA can cause confusion because its name is already used for a genus of green alga. The authors examined existing gene nomenclature guidelines and historical cases of name collisions in their analysis of this issue.

Smith, D. R., Dupin, B., & Lima, M. S. (2026). CHLORELLA should not be a long noncoding RNA: It’s already an alga!. ISME Communications. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycag117   David Smith

Hedging a financial option with its underlying asset can be expensive, raising the question of whether a different, but related, asset could be used for the hedge instead. To address this, researchers hedged a portfolio on simulated data by varying trading intervals, correlation coefficients, and transaction costs.

Nanyonga, E., & Davison, M. (2026). Hedging options on asset portfolios against just one underlying asset in the presence of transaction costs. Research in Mathematics, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/27684830.2026.2677424   Matt Davison

The price of carbon allowances within the European Union's climate policy exhibits complex dynamics, creating risk for market participants. This study examined these price dynamics through several modeling processes, estimated using rolling windows to capture time-varying parameters.

Chen, Y., Mamon, R., Spagnolo, F., Spagnolo, N., & Xiong, H. (2026). Forecasting and Pricing in the Carbon Credits Market. Journal of Forecasting. https://doi.org/10.1002/for.70168   Rogemar Mamon

The communication disturbance that can occur during conversations with a person experiencing psychosis has not been precisely quantified. To investigate this, researchers analyzed conversations between interviewers and both patients with psychotic disorders and healthy controls, measuring how their speech aligned lexically and semantically.

Olarewaju, E., Voppel, A. E., Meister, F., El Mouslih, C., Dzialoszynski, P., & PALANIYAPPAN, L. (2026). Computational Linguistic Alignment in Psychosis from Naturalistic Clinical Interviews. openRxiv. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.24.26353973   Lena Palaniyappan

Measuring the concentration of specific chemicals in the human brain with non-invasive imaging is complicated by overlapping signals. To test a new technique, researchers performed scans on non-biological test objects and in four healthy volunteers.

Kanagasabai, K., Oran, O., Palaniyappan, L., & Théberge, J. (2026). Development and in vivo proof-of-concept of delayed alternating nutation tailored excitation point resolved spectroscopy (dante-press): a frequency-selective single voxel spectroscopy sequence applied to in vivo measurements of naa and glu at 7.0 T. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-026-01365-4   Lena Palaniyappan

Progress in understanding and treating formal thought disorder, a condition that impedes communication and social ties, has been hampered by uncertainties in its assessment. To address this, researchers administered a short speech assessment to 666 people and analyzed the transcribed speech to determine the factor structure and network of the disorder.

Abboud, F., Ahrens, J., Ballès, E., Bambini, V., Deakin, B., Harrison, N. A., Kircher, T., Kuperberg, G., Liddle, P. F., Lodhi, R., Mackinley, M., Rossell, S. L., Singh, K. D., Sommer, I. E., Voppel, A., Zaher, F., Zeramdini, N., & Palaniyappan, L. (2026). The functional relevance of a short assessment of formal thought disorder in psychosis. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2026.10650   Lena Palaniyappan