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30 Sep 2025
Natural antimicrobial drugs found in pollen could help us protect bee colonies from infection
Pollen gathered by honeybees contains antimicrobial-producing bacteria that protect the hive against disease
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26 Sep 2025
Protecting the protectors: as measles cases surge, how can we help healthcare workers get vaccinated?
Measles infections are on the rise, due partly to falling vaccination rates — and because of their work, healthcare workers and those around them are particularly vulnerable. In a new Frontiers in Public Health article, Nikki Heinze and her colleagues talk to healthcare workers in a London hospital to understand the factors that encourage or discourage measles vaccination. In this editorial, Heinze explores those factors, and calls for action to improve immunity screening, raise awareness, and support healthcare workers who want to be vaccinated.
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23 Sep 2025
Lactate IV infusion found to trick the body into releasing a hormone behind that post-workout brain boost
Intravenous lactate is enough to trigger release of brain-rejuvenating hormone, also without physical exercise
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16 Sep 2025
Getting to know AIRA: our digital teammate and detective
Frontiers has long been a pioneer in using AI to support academic publishing at scale. As we celebrate Peer Review Week 2025 – the theme of which is ‘Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era’ – we’re also celebrating our very own AI assistant and digital teammate, AIRA.
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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
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10 Sep 2025
Meat from critically endangered sharks is commonly sold under false labels in the US
31% of products sold as ‘shark’ in the US are from species at risk of extinction
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10 Sep 2025
University of the Balearic Islands partners with Frontiers to support open access publishing
The University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) - Universitat de les Illes Balears - has established an institutional partnership for open access publishing with Frontiers. This open access arrangement ensures that eligible researchers from the University of the Balearic Islands may benefit from full coverage of article publishing charges (APC) under the terms of the CSUC open access publishing framework agreement.
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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
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03 Sep 2025
Happy music could help you recover from motion sickness
Listening to joyful music helped study participants with motion sickness recover better than other participants — while sad music helped less than doing nothing.
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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.
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28 Aug 2025
Nearly 80% of whale sharks in this marine tourism hotspot have human-caused scars
Human-caused injuries are common in endangered whale sharks off Indonesian Papua, but simple changes to local fishing practices could help protect them.
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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
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22 Aug 2025
Wildfires can raise local death rate by 67%, shows study on 2023 Hawaiʻi fires
Scientists studying the devastating Lāhainā, Maui fires of August 2023 found that deaths were two-thirds higher than expected that month — and 367% higher during the most intense week of the blaze.
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20 Aug 2025
Most known species evolved during 'explosions’ of diversity, shows first analysis across ‘tree of life’
Majority of living species concentrated among few disproportionately rich groups with high rates of diversification, shows first-of-its-kind study
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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.