1,583 news posts in Research news

Health

02 Oct 2025

Death toll from drugs has more than doubled worldwide over past three decades

Researchers used new statistical methods to analyze public data on the global health burden due to drug addiction. They showed that drug-related mortality has increased 2.2-fold between 1990 and 2021, especially in high-income countries, despite a 6% reduction in cases after correcting for population growth. This surge in the public health burden from drugs was greatest in the US, and likely due to the combination of opioids and cocaine and worsening social and healthcare conditions for drug users.

Health

30 Sep 2025

Mix insect, plant, and cultivated proteins for healthier, greener, tastier food, say experts

Reducing industrial animal use can help to shrink our carbon footprint and boost health—but doing so means we need nutritious meat alternatives that are also tasty and affordable.

Health

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.

Health

17 Sep 2025

People on Ozempic who eat to regulate emotions less likely to lose weight

Scientists studying people taking GLP-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic found that those who experienced emotional eating were less likely to lose clinically significant weight.

Earth science

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

Life sciences

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

Climate action

09 Sep 2025

Well-publicized polar geoengineering ideas will not help and could harm, warn experts

Five well-publicized polar geoengineering ideas are highly unlikely to help the polar regions and could harm ecosystems, communities, international relations, and our chances of reaching net zero by 2050.

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

Earth science

04 Sep 2025

Biological ‘moonshot’ accelerates efforts to genetically map life on Earth

An unprecedented effort to sequence the genomes of 150,000 eukaryotic species through inclusive global collaboration.

Life sciences

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.

Social science

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

Life sciences

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.

Life sciences

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

Environment

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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1,583 news posts in Research news

Death toll from drugs has more than doubled worldwide over past three decades

Mix insect, plant, and cultivated proteins for healthier, greener, tastier food, say experts

Protecting the protectors: as measles cases surge, how can we help healthcare workers get vaccinated?

People on Ozempic who eat to regulate emotions less likely to lose weight

Newly dated 85-million-year-old dino eggs could improve understanding of Cretaceous climate

Meat from critically endangered sharks is commonly sold under false labels in the US

Well-publicized polar geoengineering ideas will not help and could harm, warn experts

Storing breast milk for specific times of day could support babies’ circadian rhythm

Biological ‘moonshot’ accelerates efforts to genetically map life on Earth

Happy music could help you recover from motion sickness

Can ChatGPT grade your homework? Here are five Frontiers articles you won’t want to miss

Circle versus rectangle: finding ‘Earth 2.0’ may be easier using a new telescope shape

Nearly 80% of whale sharks in this marine tourism hotspot have human-caused scars

‘Built for cutting flesh, not resisting acidity’: sharks may be losing deadly teeth to ocean acidification

Wildfires can raise local death rate by 67%, shows study on 2023 Hawaiʻi fires