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Apps designed to improve sleep may increase stress in people with insomnia symptoms, study finds
Health
Ultra-sensitive food safety tests may drive food waste and unavailability with limited public health benefit, according to a Frontiers in Science study.
Featured news
Research using dinosaur body model suggests that – unlike modern birds – bird-like dinosaurs may have used the sun’s warmth to help hatch eggs, shedding light on the evolution of avian-style incubation.
Health
Apps designed to improve sleep may increase stress in people with insomnia symptoms, study finds
Health
Ultra-sensitive food safety tests may drive food waste and unavailability with limited public health benefit, according to a Frontiers in Science study.
Health
AI models generate meal plans that get necessary calories and macronutrients wrong, posing potential health risks to teenagers trying to lose weight
Health
Aging effect of specific PFAS is found to be greatest in men between 50 and 65
Neuroscience
Dr Maria Santacà describes how not only how fish and birds perceive their worlds, but also how ecological pressures shape the evolution of perception.
Neuroscience
Scientists find that words you’ve been told to recall are better remembered than words with negative emotional connotations — but surprisingly, sleeping doesn’t help.
Neuroscience
Listening to joyful music helped study participants with motion sickness recover better than other participants — while sad music helped less than doing nothing.
Neuroscience
In well-designed gardens, our gaze shifts quicker and more often. Researchers believe this could be key to understanding the relaxing effects gardens can have on viewers.
Environment
‘Microbial cross-feeding’ and previously unknown enzymes help community of bacteria to digest toxic phthalate esters
Environment
Glacier ice can reveal air pollution dating back to the Roman Empire — but the climate crisis is destroying this frozen archive
Environment
Thinning to slow wildfires simultaneously boosts ‘hydrological resilience’ of forests
Environment
Scientists use insects trapped in amber to understand ecosystems that died out millions of years ago
Psychology
With less than one month before the holidays, many of us are gearing up for the annual Christmas shopping extravaganza. We’re highlighting five articles you won’t want to miss before hitting the shops.
Psychology
Scientists find that people mostly avoid social media ads when they see them, but many ads blend in seamlessly.
Psychology
Physiological rhythms could explain why Italian university students were more likely to fail exams early or late in the day.
Psychology
Study participants asked to choose whether to empathize with or describe people preferred to empathize with groups, despite finding it difficult and distressing.
Space sciences and astronomy
Guest editorial by Prof Heidi Newberg, an astrophysicist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and author of a new Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences article
Space sciences and astronomy
Scientists successfully identify microbe fossils in terrestrial rocks like those found on Mars, opening up the possibility of searching for fossils on the Red Planet.
Space sciences and astronomy
Scientists explored microbial movement as a possible biosignature to detect life on Mars and beyond, cheaper and faster than ever before.
Space sciences and astronomy
Space belongs to no-one, yet many nations and private entities now plan to lay their claim on its resources. In a recent Frontiers in Space Technologies article, Nishith Mishra, Martina Elia Vitoloni and Dr Joseph Pelton shared their thoughts about how plans to exploit the ocean floors could impact the way resources from space are used and managed.
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