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Deborah Pirchner
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103 news posts
Featured news
20 Nov 2025
Could a child have painted that? Jackson Pollock’s famous pour-painting has child-like characteristics, study shows
Researchers find adults paint richer, more varied trajectories than children, but paintings of the latter share characteristics with famous work by expressionists, including Jackson Pollock
Featured news
14 Nov 2025
100 years of menus show how food can be used as a diplomatic tool to make and break political alliances
Researchers examined menus from Portuguese diplomatic dinners dating from 1910 to 2023 and showed that meals can play a significant role in a country’s foreign policy.
Featured news
07 Nov 2025
How diabetes affects sleep patterns: here are five articles for World Diabetes Day
Over 800 million people globally have a type of diabetes, with numbers steadily rising. November 14 marks World Diabetes Day. We’re highlighting five recently published articles on aging and diabetes.
Featured news
06 Nov 2025
Landscapes that remember: clues show Indigenous Peoples have thrived in the southwestern Amazon for more than 1,000 years
In this guest editorial, Frontiers author Prof Carla Jaimes Betancourt, an anthropologist focusing on the Amazon, present the results of interdisciplinary and collaborative archaeological research conducted in the southwestern Amazon. Their work highlights the rich cultural heritage found at the sites and the importance of protecting these landscapes.
Health
21 Oct 2025
This is how happy we need to be to have lower chronic disease mortality risk
Researchers used data from 123 countries to identify a ‘happiness threshold’ beyond which nations’ non-communicable disease mortality rate decreases, making happiness a public health resource
Life sciences
15 Oct 2025
World’s largest rays may be diving to extreme depths to build mental maps of vast oceans
Oceanic manta rays may dive many hundreds of meters deep – far deeper than once thought – for navigation and orientation after leaving coastal waters, find researchers who tracked mantas across the globe
Featured news
09 Oct 2025
How food upcycling and vertical gardening could help fight food insecurity: five articles you won’t want to miss this World Food Day
For World Food Day, we’re highlighting hot-off-the-press research aiming to prevent food waste and foster food security.
Featured news
11 Sep 2025
Newly dated 85-million-year-old dino eggs could improve understanding of Cretaceous climate
Scientists date dinosaur eggs that had laid buried in rock for millions of years for the first time, using new, ‘atomic clock for fossils’ method
Health
05 Sep 2025
Storing breast milk for specific times of day could support babies’ circadian rhythm
Labelling expressed breast milk could be a way to ensure babies receive important cues at the right time, helping busy mothers support the development of their baby
Featured news
02 Sep 2025
Can ChatGPT grade your homework? Here are five Frontiers articles you won’t want to miss
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 papers you won’t want to miss as students are returning to classrooms.
Space sciences and astronomy
01 Sep 2025
Circle versus rectangle: finding ‘Earth 2.0’ may be easier using a new telescope shape
Guest editorial by Prof Heidi Newberg, an astrophysicist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and author of a new Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences article
Featured news
27 Aug 2025
‘Built for cutting flesh, not resisting acidity’: sharks may be losing deadly teeth to ocean acidification
Scientists found that some of the oceans’ fiercest hunters could be losing their bite: As oceans become more acidic, sharks’ teeth may become structurally weaker and more prone to break
Featured news
18 Aug 2025
What do you do if your dog ingests cocaine? How one researcher is trying to protect pets from future accidents
Dr Jake Johnson is the first author of a new Frontiers in Veterinary Science article that describes a rare case study of the treatment of a lethargic and unresponsive chihuahua who visited the vet’s for treatment. We talked to Johnson about his career and a particular four-legged patient that ingested cocaine.
Featured news
14 Aug 2025
Discovery of ‘weird looking’ otter poo reveals how these animals shape nearby ecologies
Scientists found scat from river otters teeming with parasites that infect otters’ prey, suggesting that otters may be important players in local food webs
Featured news
07 Aug 2025
Ready for your summer trip? Here are five Frontiers articles you won’t want to miss
At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. Here are just five papers you won’t want to miss before embarking on this summer’s travels.