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06 Feb 2025
Efforts to find alien life could be boosted by simple test that gets microbes moving
Scientists explored microbial movement as a possible biosignature to detect life on Mars and beyond, cheaper and faster than ever before.
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04 Feb 2025
Manchester Metropolitan University partners with Frontiers for new flat fee publishing agreement
Frontiers is pleased to announce a new three-year flat fee agreement with Manchester Metropolitan University (Man Met) starting in 2025. This agreement allows Man Met to provide its researchers with unlimited publishing opportunities in all Frontiers journals, free from individual article processing charges (APCs).
Space sciences and astronomy
03 Feb 2025
Can ocean-floor mining oversights help us regulate space debris and mining on the Moon?
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.
Neuroscience
31 Jan 2025
Ear muscle we thought humans didn’t use — except for wiggling our ears — actually activates when people listen hard
The auricular muscles, which helped our distant ancestors move their ears to improve hearing quality, activated when people were trying to listen to competing sounds.
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30 Jan 2025
How tackling sepsis can save millions of lives — and prevent future pandemic deaths
Understanding the different types of immune dysregulation that cause sepsis will let us target treatments, lower future death tolls, and prevent lingering illness like long COVID-19.
Climate action
27 Jan 2025
Empowering Amazonian communities: sustainable development through open science
The Amazon rainforest, often called the lungs of Earth, is a vast and intricate ecosystem. It hosts at least 10% of the world’s wildlife and is home to many indigenous peoples and local communities. This vast expanse of rainforest plays an important role in regulating the Earth's climate, sustaining the livelihoods of millions.
Frontiers updates
27 Jan 2025
Frontiers’ Climate Action boosts biodiversity preservation in Brazil
A ground-breaking sustainability project championed by leading open science publisher, Frontiers, has been designated a Pilot Science Mission for Sustainability at the International Science Council’s (ISC) Muscat Global Knowledge Dialogue today (27 January).
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27 Jan 2025
Drones could be the ‘magic tools’ we need to chase bears away from people
Starting in 2017, Wesley Sarmento was the first prairie-based bear manager at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, a job that regularly put him right in between massive grizzly bears and people. He is also the author of a new Frontiers in Conservation Science article in which he describes the effectiveness of different methods that aimed to deter bears from human settlements, avoid conflicts between wildlife and locals, and help the successful conservation of the species. In the following guest editorial, he describes his seven-year-long search for the most effective hazing method.
Frontiers news
24 Jan 2025
Frontiers event sets scene for Belém's COP30 with Open Science Charter ambitions
As Frontiers’ CEO, Kamila Markram set out ambitions for an Open Science Charter to make climate change research freely available worldwide, Ambassador Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota confirmed President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s “personal decision” to host COP30 in Belém at the COP 30 in the Amazon: Shaping Our Planetary Future event on 23 January at the World Economic Forum’s 2025 Annual Meeting.
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22 Jan 2025
Curious blue rings in trees and shrubs reveal cold summers of the past — potentially caused by volcanic eruptions
Blue growth rings found in woody plant stems represent years when cells did not lignify properly because of summers too cold for growth.
Frontiers news
22 Jan 2025
Frontiers expands its partnership with the World Economic Forum
Frontiers signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today (22 January) with the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the 2025 Annual Meeting in Davos that offers researchers further opportunities to integrate their research findings into the Forum's initiatives.
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17 Jan 2025
What do you think ‘guilty’ sounds like? Scientists find accent stereotypes influence beliefs about who commits crimes
Scientists studying the impact of accents on prejudices find that people associate accents they consider more working-class with more criminal behavior.
Research Topics
14 Jan 2025
A look at 2024’s most viewed Research Topics
An overview of our most popular Research Topics from last year.
Health
13 Jan 2025
Not all carbs are created equal: Here are five Frontiers articles for a healthy start into the new year
At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. But with tens of thousands of articles published each year, it’s impossible to cover all of them. Here are just five amazing papers you may have missed.
Institutional partnerships
09 Jan 2025
Partnering for progress: how the University of Insubria is empowering the next generation of researchers
At just 25 years old, the University of Insubria - Università degli Studi dell'Insubria - has already established itself as a trailblazer in academia. With its strong focus on science, technology, and medicine (STM), as well as economics and social sciences, the university has made research excellence, sustainability, and innovation its guiding principles.