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eBooks

19 Jul 2022

Frontiers ebook releases: July 2022

Download the top ebook releases from this month, including the special issues on achievements in earthquake forecasting, progress of molds and yeasts in fermented food production, solutions to complex ocean challenges from early career marine scientists, how the pandemic affected learning in formal and informal settings, new perspectives on chemo-radiation resistance in cancer therapy and many more! All ebooks are free to download, share and distrubute. Shape the future of your field — and publish your own ebook — by editing a special collection around your research area. Learn more about Research Topics or submit your suggestion. Achievements and New Frontiers in Research Oriented to Earthquake ForecastingEdited by Giovanni Martinelli; Antonella Peresan; Ying LiPDFCancer Immunotherapies: From Efficacy to Resistance MechanismsEdited by Morten Hansen; Janin Chandra; Fernando Guimaraes; Nicolas Jacquelot; Yoshinobu Koguchi; Nathalie LABARRIERE; Ilaria Marigo; Lazar VujanovicPDFChemo-Radiation-Resistance in Cancer TherapyEdited by Zhe-Sheng Chen; Xiaoping Lin; Dexin KongPDFDementia in Low and Middle Income CountriesEdited by Christopher Butler; Agustin Ibanez; Mario Alfredo Parra; Huali Wang; Kit Yee Chan; Rufus Olusola Akinyemi; Tala Al-Rousan; Suvarna Alladi; Kirsten Bobrow; Stefania Ilinca; Elissaios Karageorgiou; Ophir Keret; Maira Okada de Oliveira; Geeske PeetersPDFEmerging Technology for Monitoring and Treatment in Critical CareEdited by Koichiro Shinozaki; Taka-aki Nakada; Chih-Hsien […]

Open science policy

08 Jul 2022

International Year of Basic Sciences takes center stage on sustainability in partnership with Frontiers

Hosted by UNESCO in Paris, the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD), welcomes leaders from the scientific community from around the world today to its inaugural opening ceremony.  Sponsored by the open access publisher Frontiers, the IYBSSD initiative welcomes leading figures from research institutions, governments, and international unions to discuss the role of basic sciences in addressing the challenges identified by the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The IYBSSD initiative harbours considerable support from the global scientific community. It is regarded as a leading advocate for the universal adoption of open science as an enabler to achieving a sustainable future for people and planet. IYBSSD has the support of 50 international organizations and unions; an international advisory committee of 100 science academies, networks, and learned societies; and 30 Nobel Laureates and Fields Medallists. The initiative is also supported by today’s host, UNESCO. As Gold sponsor of the initiative, as well as a signatory to the United Nations Publishers Compact, Frontiers’ head of public affairs Stephan Kuster emphasized the publishers’ support for strengthening the link between policy, science, and the public. “Today’s opening ceremony marks an important moment. We cannot […]

Frontiers news

30 Jun 2022

Frontiers: Social Media and RSS

Follow Frontiers on social media Frontiers on Twitter@FrontiersInFrontiers on FacebookFrontiersInFrontiers on LinkedInFrontiersInFrontiers on Instagram@Frontiersin_Frontiers on VimeoFrontiersFrontiers on YouTubeFrontiers Frontiers journals: Twitter and RSS Follow us via RSS or Twitter to stay up-to-date on new research published in our journals. Click on a link to add it to your RSS reader or Twitter “following” list. AFrontiers in AgingRSS@FrontAgingFrontiers in Aging NeuroscienceRSS@FrontNeurosciFrontiers in AgronomyRSS@FrontAgroFrontiers in AllergyRSS@FrontAllergyFrontiers in Analytical ScienceRSS@FrontAnalytSciFrontiers in Animal ScienceRSS@FrontAnimalSciFrontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics RSS@FrontMathsStatsFrontiers in Artificial IntelligenceRSS@FrontAIBigDataFrontiers in Astronomy and Space SciencesRSS@FrontAstroSpace BFrontiers in Behavioral NeuroscienceRSS@FrontNeurosciFrontiers in Big DataRSS@FrontAIBigDataFrontiers in Bioengineering and BiotechnologyRSS@FrontBioengFrontiers in BioinformaticsRSS@FrontBioinfFrontiers in Biomaterials ScienceRSS@FrontBiomatSciFrontiers in BlockchainRSS@FrontBlockchainFrontiers in Built EnvironmentRSS@FrontBuiltEnv CFrontiers in Cardiovascular MedicineRSS@FrontCVMedicineFrontiers in CatalysisRSS@FrontCatalysisFrontiers in Cell and Developmental BiologyRSS@FrontCellDevBioFrontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology RSS@FrontCellInfectFrontiers in Cellular NeuroscienceRSS@FrontNeurosciFrontiers in Chemical EngineeringRSS@FrontChemEngFrontiers in ChemistryRSS@FrontChemistryFrontiers in ClimateRSS@FrontSustainFrontiers in Clinical Diabetes and HealthcareRSS@FrontClinDiabFrontiers in Conservation ScienceRSS@FrontConservSciFrontiers in Control EngineeringRSS@FrontControlEngFrontiers in CommunicationRSS@FrontCommFrontiers in Communications and NetworksRSS@FrontCommNetwFrontiers in Computational NeuroscienceRSS@FrontNeurosciFrontiers in Computer ScienceRSS@FrontComputSci DFrontiers in Dental Medicine RSS@FrontDentalMedFrontiers in Digital HealthRSS@FrontDigiHealthFrontiers in Drug DeliveryRSS@FrontDrugDDSFrontiers in Drug DiscoveryRSS@FrontDrugDDSFrontiers in Drug Safety and Regulation RSS@FrontDrugDDS EFrontiers in Earth Science RSS@FrontEarthSciFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution RSS@FrontEcolEvolFrontiers in EducationRSS@FrontEducationFrontiers in ElectronicsRSS@FrontElecFrontiers in Electronic MaterialsRSS@FrontElecMatsFrontiers in EndocrinologyRSS@FrontEndocrinolFrontiers in Energy ResearchRSS@FrontEnergyResFrontiers in Environmental ScienceRSS@FrontEnvSciFrontiers […]

Health

16 Jun 2022

Pride Month 2022: Article collections on health and wellbeing in the LGBTQIA+ community

Pride month 2022’s theme is celebrating 50 years of Pride with a focus on acknowledging the many positive achievements of the LGBT+ movement. We are proud to showcase the top closed and open article collections on improving the health and wellbeing of LGBT+ individuals. Researchers explored topics spanning from transgender pain and queer aging to HIV prevention and sexual health in non-binary adolescents.

eBooks

16 Jun 2022

Frontiers ebook releases: June 2022

Download the top ebook releases from this month, including special issues on new alternatives to combat bacterial infections, challenges and solutions to LGBT+ inclusion in schools, the response of seagrass to environmental changes, understanding the roles of glia and circulating leukocytes in neurodegenerative diseases, the effects of achievement emotions on classic cognitive processes of learning and many more! All ebooks are free to download, share and distribute.

Frontiers news

16 Jun 2022

In Memoriam Salvatore “Totò” Salomone

On behalf of the Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Pharmacology, the University of Catania and his family, it is with great sadness that we announce the passing of speciality chief editor (Experimental Pharmacology and Drug Discovery), Salvatore “Totò” Salomone.  Salvatore died 15 May 2022, after an extreme fight against the devastating consequences of a cerebral haemorrhage which occurred from the rupture of an aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery about a month ago. Totò was a noble person, with rare gifts of balance and generosity in both his work and his family. He was the perfect friend, always available. He was ready to fill gaps and heal fractures in relationships between people and, in particular, between colleagues and collaborators.  Graduating in Medicine and Surgery and specializing in Internal Medicine in Catania, he obtained a PhD at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. He carried out a long period of research at the Stroke and Neurovascular Regulation Laboratory of the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA) where he worked as Assistant in Pharmacology. In 1997 he beat the competition as a researcher of Pharmacology and then, in 2007, he became an Associate Professor. On 4 January 2016 […]

Featured news

18 May 2022

Method used to track ants underground could revolutionize how we measure snow depth from space

By Simona Pesce, Frontiers writer Photo of snow taken by crew of the International Space Station. Image: NASA With the help of some ants, NASA scientists have developed an innovative concept to measure exactly how deep the snow layer is covering sea ice and mountains using a lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) instrument in space. The findings, published in Frontiers in Remote Sensing, reveal this new method will have several applications and provide more accurate measurements on the evolution of snowpack as a result of the climate crisis and better monitoring of water resources globally. Ants may be the unlikely heroes when it comes to better understanding the health of our planet in the midst of a climate crisis. In a paper published to Frontiers in Remote Sensing, a team of scientists, including those from NASA, have found a way to estimate the depth of snow from orbit using ants deep underground. One member of the team is Yongxiang Hu from NASA’s Langley Research Center who drew inspiration from physics and biology to create a unique snow depth model. A previously developed model found that the average time an ant walks around inside the colony before coming back is roughly […]

Robotics and AI

17 May 2022

Frontiers in Virtual Reality Seminar Series 2: striving for social harmony in XR

Image: Shutterstock.com Online Seminar Series 25th May – 22nd June 2022 This seminar series is presented by field chief editor of the Frontiers in Virtual Reality journal, Prof Mel Slater and members of the GuestXR European Project.  By now we are likely to have come across horror stories from ‘the metaverse‘ about how easy it is to encounter abuse, racism, misogyny, and have an overall unpleasant experience. On the other hand, social virtual environments have been studied for many years and there is evidence about how people behave in virtual meetings. GuestXR is carrying out research towards how to make immersive virtual meetings realize the goals of the participants. Normally virtual meetings have a purpose, even if that is entertainment, and GuestXR has the ambitious aim of intervening in such meetings to make them fit for their purpose. In this seminar series, partners from the GuestXR project will speak about their early work on these issues, covering a review of virtual meetings (‘collaborative virtual environments’), the utility of agent based models for social modeling, what we can learn from the neuroscience of interpersonal interaction, the role of deep learning for virtual humans, and reflections on the ethical aspects. Scheduled seminars TitleSpeakerDateTimeRegisterThe Affordances and Problems of Meeting in Virtual RealityMel […]

Top news

10 May 2022

Joseph M Sussman 2021 Prize Winners announced

Image: Shutterstock Frontiers in Built Environment is delighted to reveal the winners of the fourth Joseph M Sussman Prize celebrating the best articles published in the Transportation and Transit Systems section of the journal: Aleksandar Bauranov, Steven Parks, Xuan Jiang, Jasenka Rakas, Marta C González: “Quantifying the Resilience of the US Domestic Aviation Network During the Covid-19 Pandemic” The award-winning study selected this year provides valuable insights into the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic on the United States air transportation network. “Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, airlines dramatically reduced their flights, especially between March and August 2020.  As a result, 24% of airports closed. However, we found that the US aviation network’s efficiency dropped by only 5%, where efficiency is measured as the availability of paths between any two chosen airports. Maintaining high efficiency incurred a cost, causing emissions per passenger to be doubled. We also observed that an airport’s size was by far the best predictor of its closure, with smaller, regional airports being most adversely affected. Grants administered by the Federal Aviation Administration are the second best predictor in our model, indicating that financial aid distributed to airports in some cases made a difference between them closing and remaining open. Our methods can be used to […]

Frontiers news

11 Apr 2022

Frontiers announces first journal acquisition: Oncology Reviews

The open-access publisher Frontiers has acquired the journal Oncology Reviews from PAGEPress. The acquisition marks a significant milestone for Frontiers. It is the first journal the publisher has acquired since it was founded in 2007. Oncology Reviews is also Frontiers’ first proprietary Reviews journal, aiming to publish highly impactful reviews, thought-provoking editorials and opinion pieces. Dr. Frederick Fenter, chief executive editor of Frontiers, said: “Our successful experience with supporting the journals of learned societies on our open-science platform has now made it possible to pursue our mission via the strategic acquisition of existing journals. The quality and reputation of Oncology Reviews is excellent, and I look forward to welcoming its outstanding panel of editorial board members and its editor-in-chief, Dr. Camillo Porta, to our community.” Launched in 1970, Oncology Reviews publishes authoritative reviews on preclinical and clinical aspects of oncology. Commenting on the acquisition, editor-in-chief, Dr. Porta said: “Working with Frontiers and their open-access platform is an important moment for our journal. I am confident their platform and their passion for quality, collaboration, and open access is the start of something exciting that will enable us to reach new heights.” Oncology Reviews is a popular choice for authors seeking an […]