Health
09 Oct 2026
Your favorite music could help reduce the pain of small medical procedures
Scientists find that playing patients’ favorite music during a cannulation minimizes pain
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Social science
08 Oct 2026
Working around men may make women feel worse about mistakes, study finds
With more men on the team, it may become harder for women to admit mistakes or see them as learning opportunities, shows study of workplaces with ‘harsh error culture’
Life sciences
07 Oct 2026
The world’s oyster reefs could add $12 trillion to planetary health each year – if they were better managed
Restored and protected, oyster reefs could deliver ecosystem services worth trillions to human wellbeing and the global economy
Social science
05 Oct 2026
Modern forensic methods reveal human sacrifice in ancient Egypt
Reinvestigating First Dynasty mass burials finds evidence for fatal blunt force trauma on 39% of skulls
Life sciences
02 Oct 2026
Underwater umbrellas for coral reefs could help protect against heat damage, study finds
Temporary shades placed over especially vulnerable Caribbean corals mitigate and even partly reverse bleaching driven by marine heatwaves
Life sciences
01 Oct 2026
Even high-altitude forests in Switzerland are now weakened by frequent droughts, making natural hazards more dangerous
Essential ‘protective’ forests in highest tree belts were until recently shielded from climate change, but no longer
Life sciences
30 Sep 2026
Dinos snacked on seafood washed up on ancient beaches, fossil study shows
Dinos and their prey likely ate seaweeds, which offers an explanation to mysteriously high carbon isotope signatures in their teeth
Social science
22 Sep 2026
Films written by women make studios the most money, but budget goes to male filmmakers
Movies by female screenwriters top profit and return on investment rankings, but women are still severely underrepresented in the industry, highlighting a ‘capital allocation puzzle’
Health
21 Sep 2026
Meet a scientist who’s dedicated decades to solving one of prosthetics’ biggest problems
Prof Joan Sanders of the University of Washington has spent her career working on better prosthetics for lower limb amputees, trying to solve problems that complicate everyday life for people who have lost a limb. She is the first author of a new article in Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, which reports the development of a quick, efficient method for making prosthesis sockets with built-in sensors that monitor the socket’s changing fit in real time — like a shoe that becomes more or less comfortable the more it’s worn. In the future, this could help prosthetists track a patient’s changing needs and adapt the socket to fit better. In this Frontier Scientists Q&A, Sanders tells us about her decades of problem-solving research, and her work building the foundations for a new generation of adjustable, comfortable prosthetics that don’t need constant management by their users.
Health
17 Sep 2026
Frontiers in Science: New way to assess pace of aging could accelerate anti-aging breakthroughs
12 candidate indicators, based on studies in mice, could make developing anti-aging interventions faster—while offering new insights into age-related diseases.
Life sciences
17 Sep 2026
Discover underwater and mountain worlds: Here are Frontiers’ photo highlights of the month
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 see all that research in the same way scientists do. Here are some images that showcase some of the newest findings published in the last month.
Life sciences
16 Sep 2026
Chimpanzees give youngsters the tools to learn tricky techniques
Adult chimpanzees deliberately create learning opportunities for infants by handing over tools
Life sciences
04 Sep 2026
‘Marmots have money troubles too’: Prof Dan Blumstein on the origin of ‘OnlyMarms’ and what made it a roaring success
The story of Prof Dan Blumstein’s decision to share videos of the marmots in the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory’s field study on an OnlyFans account called OnlyMarms has captured the world over the last few weeks. 64 years of research into marmots can provide incredible insights into their evolution and socioecology, but the study is as expensive to run as it is valuable — and funding challenges have forced Blumstein, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA and Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Conservation Science, to innovate in new and surprising ways. In this instalment of Frontier Scientists, Blumstein explains to us why this long-running study of yellow-bellied marmots is so important for science, how funding losses are putting it at risk, and how he’s fighting back.
Health
01 Sep 2026
Frontiers in Science: Medical AI could move from treatment to prevention
AI could move from treating disease to predicting and preventing it, but only if a persistent gap between technical capability and patient benefit is closed, according to a new article published today in Frontiers in Science.
Life sciences
24 Aug 2026
Watch these puppies to lower your blood pressure: Here are Frontiers’ photo highlights of the month
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 see all that research in the same way scientists do. Here are some images that showcase some of the newest findings published in the last month.