The term 'coercion' is often used to describe public health measures, but its lack of a clear, consistent definition can lead to problems with policy implementation and public trust. To understand how coercion is defined and justified, researchers conducted a scoping review of the public health literature across five databases.

Kim, D. D., & Smith, M. J. (2026). Coercion in public health: a scoping review of definitions. BMJ Public Health, 4(2), e004901. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-2026-004901   Maxwell Smith

The use of educational technology in schools has grown, yet there is a lack of combined evidence on how these tools are evaluated for math and literacy learning. To investigate this, researchers conducted a systematic review of 44 studies to explore the methodologies, technologies, and assessments used to evaluate EdTech in K-8 education.

Alam, S. S., & Ansari, D. (2026). How Are Educational Technologies Evaluated for Elementary Students’ Math and Literacy Learning: A Systematic Review. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/02568543.2026.2657313   Daniel Ansari

Women and gender-diverse people can face structural barriers that raise their risk for hepatitis C virus and make it harder to get care. To study this, researchers described a Canadian cohort of individuals engaged in hepatitis C care who self-identified as cis women, trans women, or trans men.

Biondi, M. J., Imsirovic, H., Feld, J. J., Liu, H., Keeshan, A., Lee, S. S., & Cooper, C. L. (2026). A Gender-Based Descriptive Analysis of the Canadian Network Undertaking against Hepatitis C (CANUHC) Cohort from 2015-2023. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofag356   Mia Biondi

This research addresses whether the brain processes ratios from different visual formats, such as sets of dots and line lengths, using a common system. To investigate this, the study used fMRI to analyze the brain activity of thirty participants as they completed a task comparing ratios depicted in these two formats.

Lagacé-Cusiac, R., Grahn, J. A., & Ansari, D. (2026). Distinct Neural Representations across Discrete and Continuous Non-symbolic Ratios. Center for Open Science. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/djcsb_v2   Jessica Grahn   Daniel Ansari

The underlying reasons for changes in brain blood flow in individuals living with psychosis are not well understood. This study estimated and compared brain blood vessel reactivity using fMRI data from a group of individuals with first-episode psychosis and a control group.

Prud'homme, T., Percie du Sert, O., Potvin-Jutras, Z., Lavigne, K. M., Joober, R., Shah, J., Palaniyappan, L., Chakravarty, M., Gauthier, C. J., Lepage, M., & Raucher-Chéné, D. (2026). Cerebrovascular reactivity mapping using resting-state BOLD-fMRI in individuals with first episode psychosis. Center for Open Science. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/g2z4t_v1   Lena Palaniyappan

Identifying and studying the large carbon molecules known as fullerenes in space can be challenging, particularly when their typical chemical signals are obscured. Researchers used observations from the JWST to look at a planetary nebula and compared that information with new quantum chemical calculations.

Giese, M. M., Esposito, V. J., Van Schuylenbergh, S., Cami, J., Peeters, E., Bhatt, C., Van De Putte, D., Tielens, A. G. G. M., Barlow, M. J., Bernard-Salas, J., Candian, A., Changala, B., Cox, N. L. J., Dinerstein, H. L., García-Hernández, D. A., Gómez-Muñoz, M. A., Justtanont, K., Kraemer, K. E., Lagadec, E., ... Manchado, A. (2026). Detection of C ₆₀ Combination Bands in the Near-IR Spectrum of Tc 1. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1004(2), L32. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ae76d5   Jan Cami