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Flocking to fire: wildfires don’t deter Americans from moving to at-risk regions

December 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image/Shutterstock.com Scientists investigated whether environmental hazards put people off moving to regions at risk and [...]

Could new cancer drugs come from potatoes and tomatoes?

December 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image/Shutterstock.com Polish scientists revealed the potential for new cancer drugs to be formulated from bioactive [...]

10 Frontiers articles that caught the world’s attention in 2022

December 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Frontiers’ science writers Image: Shutterstock.com As part of Frontiers’ passion to make science available to all, we highlight just a small selection of the most [...]

Scientists find inorganic food additives might make babies more vulnerable to allergies

December 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image/Shutterstock.com Inorganic nanoparticles used to help process food may be crossing the placental barrier and [...]

Open access publisher Frontiers strengthens its global public affairs team

December 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

Research publisher Frontiers appoints Dr Anke Beck and Ms Nancy (Yinan) Chen as heads of public affairs and advocacy for Europe and China respectively. They have been [...]

‘The Maya had, and continue to have, a creative impact on forest composition’ – Dr Anabel Ford

December 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

El Pilar, an ancient Maya site in Belize In our Frontier Scientists series, we talk to Dr Anabel Ford, a leading researcher on the ancient Maya, about her career and research [...]

How to write a manuscript: Expert advice on getting published

November 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

By: John R. Porter, Helen Kimbell, Aida Finn, Catarina Alves, and Bhagirath Chauhan There’s a saying in science – ‘publish or perish’, meaning your ability to pursue [...]

Biomarker in urine could be the first to reveal early-stage Alzheimer’s disease

November 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Conn Hastings, science writer Image: BlurryMe/Shutterstock.com Alzheimer’s disease can remain undetected until it is too late to treat. Large-scale screening programs [...]

Philipp University of Marburg forms publishing agreement with Frontiers

November 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

Philipps University Marburg has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible [...]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill forms publishing agreement with Frontiers

November 28, 2022 // 0 Comments

The University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, [...]

How you help a child go to sleep is related to their behavioral development, finds new study

November 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer Image: yamasan0708/Shutterstock.com A group of international researchers examined parental methods to help toddlers sleep [...]

World’s heaviest flying bird may be self-medicating on plants used in traditional medicine

November 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Great bustard male displaying on lek. Image credit: Carlos Palacín Researchers show that great bustards in Spain prefer to eat [...]

Vast phytoplankton blooms may be lurking beneath Antarctic ice

November 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Researchers using NASA’s Earth observing system find that Antarctic sea ice allows enough [...]

Smart ‘Joey’ bots could soon swarm underground to clean and inspect our pipes

November 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Joey’s design. Image credit: TL Nguyen, A Blight, A Pickering, A Barber, GH Jackson-Mills, JH Boyle, R Richardson, M Dogar, [...]

Colorado State University forms open access publishing agreement with Frontiers

November 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

Colorado State University supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, Colorado State University Libraries has entered an [...]

Monica Montgomery – Policies for Peace

November 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

Author: Lucy Thompson Monica Montgomery is the Political Director for the non-profit, non-partisan advocacy organization Council for a Livable World. The organization is [...]

Having good friendships may make for a healthier gut microbiome

November 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Grooming rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago. Image credit: Lauren Brent Researchers show for the first time that monkeys that are [...]

Birkbeck, University of London has joined the Frontiers – JISC national open access deal

November 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

We would like to announce that Birkbeck, University of London has joined the national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers.  This landmark [...]

Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering Online Webinars: Intelligent Aerospace Systems

November 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

This Webinar Series is presented by a Specialty Chief Editor of the Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering journal, Professor Kelly Cohen (University of Cincinnati) and members [...]

5 articles you need to check out on the future of materials research

November 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com In a fast-moving field of research like materials science, it can be difficult to keep up with [...]

From ghost gear to microbe memories: 4 Frontiers articles you won’t want to miss

November 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. But with tens of [...]

60% of home ‘compostable’ plastic doesn’t fully break down, ending up in our soil

November 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer Image: Citizen scientist image from www.bigcompostexperiment.org.uk In a UK-wide study, researchers found that 60% of [...]

Italian researchers discover new recipe for extending shelf life of fresh pasta by 30 days

November 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Peter Rejcek, science writer Image credit: Raimunda Losantos / Shutterstock.com Pasta is one of the most popular food staples in the world, but fresh pasta has a limited [...]

Open science platform Frontiers publishes new Nobel Collection articles

November 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

Five more Nobel Prize winners publish free scientific article collection for children Last year in September, as many young people prepared to go back to school, the very [...]

Response to the Leiden Madtrics blog – 31 October 2022

October 31, 2022 // 0 Comments

Leiden Madtrics is the official blog of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. Below, we offer our acknowledgment and our response to this [...]

Real-time space observations can now keep watch over ‘super emitter’ power plants

October 28, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Bełchatόw power station in central Poland. Image credit: Pawel Brzozowski / Shutterstock.com Under the Paris Agreement, [...]

How do we stop ‘robot evolution’ from spiraling out of control? 2 essential articles on the future of robotics and AI

October 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Colm Gorey, Frontiers Science Communications Manager Image: Shutterstock.com Robotics and AI have quickly outgrown as tropes of science fiction and are almost ubiquitous [...]

‘Virtual autopsy’ identifies a 17th century mummified toddler hidden from the sun

October 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image: Riderfoot/Shutterstock.com Scientists used a ‘virtual autopsy’ to examine the mummy of a child found in an [...]

CO2 ventilation breakthrough could turn city rooftops into bumper vegetable gardens

October 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Scientists find that expelled air from ventilation systems can make corn and spinach grow taller [...]

Secret behind spectacular blooms in world’s driest desert is invisible to human eyes

October 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer The 2021 ‘desierto florido’ near Caldera, Chile. The purple flowers are the pussypaw Cistanthe longiscapa (family [...]

Mushroom that grows on insects could help develop new anti-viral medications and cancer drugs

October 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image: bob.leccinum.Robert Kozak/Shutterstock.com Scientists studying the medicinal potential of a rare insect-eating [...]

WWII shipwreck has leaked many pollutants into the sea, changing the ocean floor around it

October 18, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer Torn deck plating of the V 1302 John Mahn that was damaged by the bomb that hit amidships. Image: Flanders Marine [...]

New walking robot design could revolutionize how we build things in space

October 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Researchers have designed a state-of-the-art walking robot that could revolutionize large construction [...]

Santa Clara University forms publishing agreement with Frontiers

October 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

Santa Clara University has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible [...]

From chili-heat pain relief to blue whale migration: 5 Frontiers articles you won’t want to miss

October 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. But with tens of [...]

Francesca Altieri – From Maths to Mars

October 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Leticia Nani Silva For this article, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr Francesca Altieri, a planetary science researcher at the Institute for Space Astrophysics and [...]

The ultimate death stare: How moth wing patterns scare off predatory birds with amazing optical illusion

October 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

by Dr Hannah Rowland, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, and Dr John Skelhorn, Newcastle University Image: Dr Hannah Rowland Many prey species have eyespot markings [...]

Scientists peel back ancient layers of banana DNA to reveal mystery ancestors

October 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Researchers compare the genomes of more than 200 wild and domesticated varieties of bananas and show that three extra ancestors, [...]

‘Love hormone’ revealed to have heart healing properties

September 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Researchers show for the first time that the neurohormone oxytocin has a previously unsuspected function [...]

UK politicians lack awareness of the links between climate change and mental health

September 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Lucy T Pirkle from the Department of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK Image credit: WikiWitch / Wikimedia Commons It’s essential that [...]

4 articles you need to check out on the future of behavioral neuroscience

September 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com How mice and rats help study depression Mice and rats are key model animals that help us [...]

Sugary poo could be used to lure destructive plant pests to their doom

September 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

By K.E.D. Coan, science writer Aggregation of spotted lanternflies, Lycorma delicatula. Image credit: Jana Shea / Shutterstock.com Spotted lanternflies send signals with [...]

Phoebe Koundouri and Marina Della Giusta – Women supporting women

September 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Leticia Nani Silva , Rocio Caverzasi and Geraldine Clancy To celebrate International Equal Pay Day, we speak to the new Field Chief Editors of our Economics journals [...]

New research shows self-injectable contraception can enable women to take charge of their reproductive health

September 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Allen Namagembe, PATH, Uganda and Dr Jane Cover, PATH, US Image: PATH/Will Boase Allen Namagembe is a clinical epidemiologist, a biostatistician, and a global expert on [...]

Rodents are reservoirs for life-threatening disease, finds new study

September 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Tania Fitzgeorge-balfour, science writer Image: Vicky Outen/Shutterstock.com Fungal diseases in the human population are on the rise, so it is important for health [...]

Ancient Maya cities were dangerously contaminated with mercury

September 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Temple of the Great Jaguar at Tikal, a UNESCO world heritage site in Guatemala. Image credit: Leonid Andronov,/ [...]

Bees, blue light, and bacteria in beetles’ ‘back pockets’: Most viewed articles of August 2022

September 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

Image: Shutterstock.com by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Each month, Frontiers shines a spotlight on some of the leading research across a wide range of [...]

Acquired immunity against random food allergens may protect some lucky people against Covid-19

September 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Conn Hastings, science writer A new study has investigated the potential of proteins in common foods to elicit protection against SARS-CoV-2. The researchers found that [...]

Teams of sperm swim more smoothly against the current

September 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Peter Rejcek, science writer The physics of how sperm navigate their way to an egg in mammals, including humans, are not well understood. The tendency for sperm to cluster [...]

Sharing a laugh: Scientists teach a robot when to have a sense of humor

September 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Peter Rejcek, science writer ERICA being trained on how to have a sense of humor. Image: Inoue et al No one can really agree on what makes each of us laugh, so designing [...]