Health
04 Apr 2024
Climate change, pollution, and collapsing biodiversity are damaging our immune systems, but improving the environment offers effective and fast-acting protection.
Health
28 Mar 2024
A pilot study shows that dogs can be taught to recognize the scent of trauma reactions on the breath, which could make PTSD assistance dogs more effective.
Health
27 Mar 2024
Materials scientists have now shown how the blood-like hemolymph of tobacco hornworm caterpillars forms clots to stop bleeding. They show that outside the body, hemolymph can instantaneously change from water-like behavior to become ‘viscoelastic’ like saliva, that is, combining viscosity with elasticity. This discovery could have medical applications, if drugs can be designed that induce a similar change in human blood, to make it clot faster.
Space sciences and astronomy
25 Mar 2024
Images from telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope have expanded the way we see space. But what if you can’t see? Can stars be turned into sounds instead?
Robotics and AI
20 Mar 2024
Scientists showed that machine learning tools can identify emotions from audio fragments lasting just 1.5 seconds on par with human ratings
Health
19 Mar 2024
Research has now shown that the habit of letting go of unattainable goals helps people to stay satisfied with their romantic relationship if their partner experiences sleep problems. Such ‘letting go’ could also be learned, for example through training by clinical psychologists. But the results also showed that being too ready to replace unattainable goals with alternatives can worsen mutual satisfaction with a relationship, perhaps because this prevents spouses from putting more time and effort into it.
Health
15 Mar 2024
Using clinical data, researchers examined injury patters of car crash victims and found that women have an elevated shock index more often than men, even when their injuries are less severe
Engineering
12 Mar 2024
Scientists use spent brewer’s yeast, left over from manufacturing beer, to filter out metal from waste streams.
Earth science
11 Mar 2024
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 amazing papers you may have missed.
Health
08 Mar 2024
Scientists found that many people with type 2 diabetes know little about their condition, indicating a need to improve communication about the disease
Earth science
05 Mar 2024
Scientists demonstrate the use of next-generation satellite data and advanced modeling to build virtual replicas of the terrestrial water cycle that can track water resources and create detailed simulations of flooding and other extreme events.
Health
05 Mar 2024
Scientists showed that insecticide paint could effectively decrease mosquito presence in Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) for up to one year, making this paint a potential strategy to decrease the transmission of vector-borne diseases.
Life sciences
29 Feb 2024
Archaeologists analyze the carbon isotope values of hazelnuts from ancient sites to see what the local woods were like.
Life sciences
26 Feb 2024
Scientists discovered eight new species of masked bee in Fiji, Micronesia, and Polynesia: relatives of Tuamotu’s masked bee from Tuamotu. For 59 years, this bee had been considered by experts to be a mysterious anomaly since its closest relatives, as far as was known at the time, lived 3,000 km further west. With the new species, discovered by sampling from the tree canopy, the mystery is solved: ancestors of Tuamotu’s masked bee reached Polynesia by island-hopping across Fiji and the southwestern Pacific. Many more new species are expected to be discovered in the canopy of islands along this route soon.
Life sciences
20 Feb 2024
Using movement behavior models, scientists tracked leatherback sea turtles to new foraging locations off the US east coast
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