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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 [...]
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology forms publishing agreement with Frontiers
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement [...]
In conversation with Professor Laura Haynes, Field Chief Editor for Frontiers in Aging
Professor Laura Haynes, Field Chief Editor for Frontiers in Aging Frontiers in Aging is an open access journal dedicated to advancing our understanding of human aging and [...]
Putting sharks on the map: a new standard to identify important, global habitats
By Tayyibah Aziz, science writer Image: Shutterstock Many existing marine protected areas fail to adequately consider the needs of sharks, rays, and chimaeras, as data about [...]
Karen Strier – Lessons from the world’s most peaceful primate
Author: Natasha Inskip Dr Karen Strier is Vilas Research Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With a Ph.D. in [...]
Scientists eavesdrop on minke whale ‘boing’ calls in Hawai’i, and 4 other articles you don’t want to miss
By Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image: Annie Leblanc/Shutterstock.com At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. [...]
Anti-diarrhea medication may help treat core autism symptoms
By Conn Hastings, science writer Image: Shutterstock.com There are currently no effective treatments for the core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), such as [...]
Scientific ‘detective work’ reveals South American mummies were brutally murdered
By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Sketch from the book by Reiss and Stübel (1887. The necropolis at Ancon) on the excavations and findings at the necropolis of [...]
Excessive blue light from our gadgets may accelerate the aging process
By Tania Fitzgeorge-Balfour, science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Excessive exposure to blue light, for example example through TVs, laptops, and phones, may have an aging [...]
Beetles rely on unique ‘back pockets’ to keep bacterial symbionts safe during metamorphosis
By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Lagria villosa adult. Image credit: RS Janke Researchers show that beetles in the genus Lagria have evolved unique ‘back [...]
41% of teenagers can’t tell the difference between true and fake online health messages
By Suzanna Burgelman, science writer Image: Shutterstock.com A new study has found that teenagers have a hard time discerning between fake and true health messages. Only 48% [...]
Trudy Cardinal – Who can I be?
We celebrate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People by speaking with Dr Trudy Cardinal, Associate Professor of the University of Alberta, about her vastly different experience as an Indigenous person. [...]
Skipping breakfast at home may increase chance of kids and teens developing psychosocial health problems
By K.E.D Coan, science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Eating breakfast at home is linked with fewer behavioral problems in young people, reports a new nationwide study from [...]
Modern pesticides damage the brain of bees so they can’t move in a straight line
By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Researchers show for the first time that honeybee foragers exposed to the pesticides sulfoxaflor and [...]
Open access publisher Frontiers at ESOF 2022
Frontiers at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) in Leiden [...]
A virtual trip to the museum can improve the health of seniors stuck at home
By Peter Rejceck, science writer Image credit: SeventyFour / Shutterstock.com Social isolation can have devastating health effects, especially for elderly people. A number of [...]
Humans have totally altered small mammal communities in just a few centuries
By Suzanna Burgelman, science writer Image: Paul Abrahams/Shutterstock.com Researchers have found that small mammal communities today are fundamentally different from even a [...]
Alison Spiro – To be understood and listened to
We speak with the breastfeeding expert Dr Alison Spiro about her career, breastfeeding in a broader cultural and social context and how she hopes to change the way healthcare professionals and society view it. [...]
Researchers challenge claim of historic human brain ‘shrinking’ and 3 other papers you don’t want to miss
By Colm Gorey and Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writers Image: Shutterstock.com At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. But with [...]
Traces of 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill still detectable in 2020
By K.E.D. Coan, science writer Image: Breck P. Kent/Shutterstock.com Small amounts of highly weathered oil residues from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster were still [...]
Worrying finding in California’s multi-billion-dollar climate initiative reveals problem with using forests to offset CO2 emissions
By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer Image: Zack Frank/Shutterstock.com Researchers have found that California’s forest carbon buffer pool, designed to ensure the [...]
‘I got front row seats to the astronomy event of my lifetime, and it didn’t disappoint’
By Colm Gorey, Frontiers science communications manager/Dr Susan Mullally, STScI Image: Dr Susan Mullally, STScI The successful launch of the James Webb Space Telescope [...]
Yoda-like tarsiers push virtuoso singing to their physiological limits
By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Pair of Gursky’s spectral tarsiers, Tarsius spectrumgurskyae. Image credit: Arie de Gier / Shutterstock.com Researchers [...]
Carbon removal using ‘blue carbon’ habitats ‘uncertain and unreliable’
By Cat Bartman / Media Centre, University of East Anglia Eelgrass beds are a form of Blue Carbon Restoring coastal vegetation – so called ‘blue carbon’ habitats – may [...]
Key to life found at the centre of our galaxy and bee ‘waggle dances’: Most viewed articles of July 2022
By Colm Gorey, Frontiers science communications manager Image: Shutterstock.com Each month, Frontiers shines a spotlight on some of the leading research across a wide range [...]
Rachel Ann Foster – Don’t wait for change
We speak with Dr Rachel A. Foster, a Specialty Chief Editor for Aquatic Microbiology in the journals Frontiers in Microbiology and Frontiers in Marine Science, about her career and the challenges faced along the way. [...]
Microbial ´dark matter´: centuries-old lava caves of Hawaiʻi Island contain thousands of unknown bacterial species
By K.E.D. Coan, science writer Thick microbial mats hang under a rock ledge in steam vents that run along the Eastern Rift Zone on Hawaiʻi Island. Image Credit: Jimmy Saw [...]
Scientists identify DNA ‘hotspots’ that tell zebrafish to change sex in warmer waters
By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Zebrafish, Danio rerio Scientists identify 54 ‘hotspots’ in the genome for cross-talk between the environment, in [...]
Alzheimer’s impact on the brain is broader than we thought and 4 other fascinating Frontiers articles you don’t want to miss
By Colm Gorey, Frontiers science communications manager Image: Shutterstock.com At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. But with tens [...]
Verbal insults trigger a ‘mini slap to the face’, finds new research
By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer Image: Ken stocker/Shutterstock.com Hearing insults is like receiving a “mini slap in the face”, regardless of the precise [...]