Plant reveals anti-Alzheimer’s compounds
Japanese scientists develop a new technique to isolate active therapeutic compounds for Alzheimer's disease from plants. [...]
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Creating human super intelligence: winner of Spotlight Award 2017
Superintelligence: fact or fiction. First Frontiers Spotlight Award Winner for outstanding research into human brain augmentation [...]
How a girl is raised can influence her adult sporting success
Study shows girls who grow up exposed to traditionally more masculine interests and role models are more likely to have the aggressive desire to succeed at sport. — By [...]
Blue Brain Team Discovers a Multi-Dimensional Universe in Brain Networks
Using mathematics in a novel way in neuroscience, the Blue Brain Project shows that the brain operates on many dimensions, not just the three dimensions that we are accustomed to [...]
One Face Among Many in DNA Damage Response
The Research Topic, Published in Frontiers in Oncology & Frontiers in Genetics aims to give a comprehensive overview of our current understanding of ubiquitin and SUMO pathways in all aspects of DDR [...]
How microbes affect plant life
The Research Topic, published in Frontiers in Plant Science & Frontiers in Microbiology, aims to cover all aspects of biotrophic plant-microbe interactions [...]
High-energy charged particles: the beginning and end of cancer
The Research Topic, published in Frontiers in Oncology, consists of a collection of scientific articles investigating high-energy charged particles either for cancer treatment or for space radiation protection. [...]
Shaping your brain with exercise, video games and more
This Research Topic, published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, investigates cognitive training techniques in health and disease, and in youth and old age. [...]
How physics and mathematics are helping us understand society
New research, published in Frontiers in Physics, brings together social sciences and computational physics to take a look at our society and how it works. [...]
The microbiome: our invisible partner
This Research Topic, published in Frontiers in Microbiology, provides a home for studies exploring how the microbiome and host organisms interact. [...]
How can children’s active exploration of the world influence development?
Research, published in Frontiers in Psychology, shows motor skills impact growth beyond physical health, such as language, math and social behavior. [...]
Human super intelligence: still science fiction or close to reality?
New research published in Frontiers in Neuroscience discusses the facts, fiction and controversy surrounding brain augmentation. [...]
Strong policy supported by science to protect our oceans
New research, published in Frontiers in Marine Science, bridges the gap between policy makers and scientists to ensure sustainable use of our oceans. [...]
Edging Closer to a Winner for Major New Frontiers Research Award
Ten cutting-edge Frontiers Research Topics announced as finalists for the first Spotlight Award which grants US$100,000 to organize a conference. [...]
Unravelling the mysteries of the farthest objects of the Solar System
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences launched a new Research Topic which aims to investigates the origins and the main features of trans-Neptunian objects, small celestial objects that orbit the Sun at a greater distance than Neptune. [...]
Open Science can save the planet
Open Access publisher Frontiers’ CEO, Kamila Markram, makes a case for why open science is the key to innovation, economic growth and solutions to a sustainable future. [...]
Can Birth Ever Be Completely Natural?
This is the question that researchers want to address in their inter-disciplinary Research Topic ‘Birth’. [...]
Sleep and Chronobiology new Editor Yves Dauvilliers
Led by the new Specialty Chief Editor Prof. Yves Dauvilliers, this multidisciplinary section is open for submissions of studies on sleep, circadian rhythms and their [...]
Water for People or Nature: Do we Really Need to Choose?
New research published in Frontiers in Environmental Science discusses, for the first time, how to improve ecosystem conditions for societal use. [...]
Simply wearing a police uniform may cause bias
Students wearing police uniforms show biased attention towards people wearing hoodies.
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Medical Sociology: Highlighting the Move towards Interdisciplinary Research
Medical Sociology is the most recent section to be launched in Frontiers in Sociology and spans the fields of medicine, public health and the social sciences. [...]
Frontiers in Medicine launches new specialty section – Innovative Therapies.
New section will focus on the use of gene editing in gene therapy, dealing with the ethical issues in the field, and making gene therapy more widely available. [...]
Did Humans Create the Sahara Desert?
New research challenges the idea that changes in the Earth’s orbit triggered Sahara desertification. [...]
Empowering women to progress in traditionally male dominated fields
What are the factors that affect women from diverse backgrounds progressing in STEM fields? [...]
In Politics Does Rudeness Win?
A new research project wants to track if our politics is getting ruder or whether it’s the media – stupid! — Tanya Petersen “Happy New Year to all, including to [...]
Open Science will take us into a new world
Open Science: Removing the limits on science to drive innovation and advance knowledge.
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Horse-riding can improve children’s cognitive ability
Study shows how the effects of horseback riding improve learning in children. [...]
Calculating Climate Change losses in major European Coastal Cities
Researchers urge policy-makers not to settle for traditional approaches and point to high potential economic losses. [...]
Frontiers in Psychiatry launches a new section – Psychopharmacology
We are pleased to announce the launch of our brand new section Psychopharmacology in Frontiers in Psychiatry. [...]
Teach yourself everyday happiness with imagery training
Our emotions are often affected by images and visual memories. What if we could train our own brains to use imagery and effect our emotional state? [...]
Hammerhead shark migration gives new hope for conservation
New information on the migration patterns of the Great Hammerhead shark, Sphyrna mokarran, will help to protect this endangered species, scientists suggest. [...]
Future space missions and the Earth-Moon system
How the complex dynamics of the Earth-Moon system and its applied and fundamental physics may play a crucial role in the future of space exploration – by Claudio Bogazzi, [...]
Females no longer neglected in obesity research
Scientists revise the typical use of male rats and point to sex-differences that can drastically change how we approach obesity in females. [...]
A way out of the junk-food eating cycle
Study shows that junk-food is habit-forming in rats – but that the habit could easily be broken by pairing it with the right environmental cues. [...]
Where belief in free will is linked to happiness
Researchers show that the phenomenon, previously seen in Western populations, also occurs in Chinese teenagers, and can cross cultural divides [...]
Frontiers position statement: Impact of EU copyright reform on open science and innovation
To innovate effectively, the results of research must be open to all of society. Today, there is exponential growth in the knowledge produced by scientific, medical and [...]
Deeper than obesity: a majority of people is now ‘overfat’
Researchers describe a new pandemic and argue for a change in global health efforts against chronic and metabolic diseases [...]
Second annual Frontiers Spotlight Award announced for 2018
The annual $100,000 competition is now open. All Frontiers Research Topics completed in 2017 will be considered. [...]
Frontiers Journals with Impact Factors
With the latest release of the 2016 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) by Clarivate Analytics (f.k.a. Thomson Reuters), 24 Frontiers journals now have Impact Factors, up from 19 last year. [...]
