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Deborah Pirchner
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95 news posts
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.
Featured news
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.
Health
06 Aug 2025
Living in hurricane affected areas could increase mortality of older people by 9% years after disaster
Researchers found increased, but regionally varying, risk of death from all causes for those who continued to live in flood-affected zip codes, highlighting the importance of region-specific disaster planning.
Humanities
31 Jul 2025
4,000-year-old teeth record the earliest traces of people chewing psychoactive betel nuts
New methods make the ‘invisible visible’ to find evidence of deeply rooted cultural practice which otherwise might have been lost in the archaeological record
Featured news
22 Jul 2025
Some people could sound angrier when complaining, new study finds
The French sound sad, Québécois sound angry: research shows different cultures may utter complaints differently, highlighting that complaints could be shaped by cultural and social conventions
Featured news
15 Jul 2025
Mental health from supermarket shelves? This is the evidence we have about over-the-counter herbal products and dietary supplements used for depression
Guest editorial by Rachael Frost, a senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University and author of a new Frontiers in Pharmacology article.
Featured news
08 Jul 2025
Matching your workouts to your personality could make exercising more enjoyable and give you better results
Researchers find that people with certain personality traits may benefit from certain workouts more than others and that some people may particularly profit from the stress-relieving effects of exercise
Featured news
07 Jul 2025
How does a shrinking population weaken us in tackling the climate crisis? Here are five Frontiers articles you won’t want to miss on World Population Day
We’re highlighting five recently published Frontiers articles that examine the effects of shrinking populations, movement of people, and health of some demographic groups on a warming planet.
Featured news
03 Jul 2025
Climate crisis could force wild vanilla plants and pollinating insects apart, threatening global supply
Researchers find that a reduced overlap of suitable habitats for vanilla plants and the insects that pollinate them could threaten the survival of wild vanilla
Robotics and AI
19 Jun 2025
Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others
Researchers found some LLMs create four times the amount of CO2 emissions than other models with comparable accuracy. Their findings allow users to make informed decisions about their own LLM use.