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        <description><![CDATA[The latest science & research news from Frontiers - Publishing the most cited open-access journals in their fields]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Race against time to save Alpine ice cores recording medieval mining, fires, and volcanoes ]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Glacier ice can reveal air pollution dating back to the Roman Empire — but the climate crisis is destroying this frozen archive]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Teens using AI meal plans could be eating too few calories — equivalent to skipping a meal]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[AI models generate meal plans that get necessary calories and macronutrients wrong, posing potential health risks to teenagers trying to lose weight]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Narel Paniagua Zambrana – "You Cannot Conserve What You Do Not Know": Documenting Plant Knowledge to Protect Culture and Biodiversity]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[World Wildlife Day 2026 shines a spotlight on wild animals and plants, with this year's theme, “Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Conserving Health, Heritage and Livelihoods.” 

 

To mark the day, we spoke with Dr Narel Paniagua Zambrana, an ethnobotanist whose career reflects both scientific leadership and the growing visibility of women in plant and environmental sciences. Her work explores how plant knowledge is learned, practiced, and passed on, often through gendered systems of care, healing, and cultural transmission. ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frontiers Communications]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How do you know you can trust the science you read?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[It doesn’t happen by chance. Behind every article published in a Frontiers journal lies a structured, rigorous, seven-stage journey designed to safeguard integrity and protect the scientific record. 

At a time when scientific publishing faces growing challenges - from AI-generated and manufactured manuscripts to coordinated fraud - maintaining confidence in research has never been more important, demanding increasing vigilance at every step. ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frontiers Communications]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Chimps’ love for crystals could help us understand our own ancestors’ fascination with these stones]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Ancestors of modern humans collected crystals for which they had no apparent use. A new chimp study could help researchers understand the roots of this infatuation. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/03/04/chimps-love-crystals-human-fascination</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Modern twist on wildfire management methods found also to have a bonus feature that protects water supplies]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Thinning to slow wildfires simultaneously boosts ‘hydrological resilience’ of forests]]></description>
            <link>https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/03/03/frontiers-forests-global-change-forest-thinning-recovers-snow-pack-for-water-supply</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michiel Dijkstra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fossil amber reveals the secret lives of Cretaceous ants ]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Scientists use insects trapped in amber to understand ecosystems that died out millions of years ago]]></description>
            <link>https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/02/27/fossil-amber-secret-lives-cretaceous-ants-frontiers-ecology-evolution</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sikt Renews National Open Access Agreement with Frontiers for 2026]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Frontiers and the Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (Sikt) have announced the renewal of their national open access agreement for 2026. Originally signed in 2020, this partnership continues to streamline the publishing process for Norwegian researchers and reinforces the country's leadership in open access publishing. ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frontiers Science Communications]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Middle-aged men are most vulnerable to faster aging due to ‘forever chemicals’]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Aging effect of specific PFAS is found to be greatest in men between 50 and 65]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michiel Dijkstra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Celebrity dolphin of Venice doesn’t need special protection – except from humans]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A dolphin returning to a historic habitat necessitates management of people, not wildlife, researchers monitoring solitary bottlenose dolphin in Venice say]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How bacteria can reclaim lost energy, nutrients, and clean water from wastewater]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Wastewater contains untapped resources that, if reclaimed, could power agriculture, global sanitation, and its own treatment to help us meet UN SDG goals, according to a review published in Frontiers in Science. ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Brogan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scientists reveal our best- and worst-case scenarios for a warming Antarctica]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[New study on the Antarctic Peninsula shows that the choices we make in the next decade will determine Antarctica’s fate for centuries ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Frontiers Women in Science – Five years on]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Looking back at 2025, our fifth year publishing the Women in Science blog series, I feel an immense sense of pride in what we have achieved as a group. With 76 insightful articles published over the past five years, it is clear that women researchers continue to need a dedicated platform with readers who remain strongly engaged with their stories. In 2025, we featured nine interviews with researchers from across the globe, spanning from wildlife conservation to education, from climate change to LGBTQ+ rights, highlighting both the diversity of their work and the global relevance of their voices. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brainwaves of mothers and children synchronize when playing together – even in an acquired language]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Neural synchrony between mothers and children doesn’t require native language proficiency]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michiel Dijkstra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bacteria frozen in ancient underground ice cave found to be resistant against 10 modern antibiotics]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A bacterial strain thriving in icy environments could sharpen antibiotic resistance crisis – or help solve it, new research shows]]></description>
            <link>https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/02/17/bacteria-ancient-underground-ice-cave-resistant-antibiotics</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Frogs new to science and proof we’d rather look anywhere but at spiders: Here are Frontiers’ photo highlights of the month]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Advancing research integrity in 2025: leading with action and impact]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[At Frontiers, research integrity and quality sit at the heart of everything we publish. Supporting this commitment is our dedicated Research Integrity team, working behind the scenes to safeguard the scientific record at scale. 

In her latest blog, Elena Vicario, Director of Research Integrity, reflects on 2025 - a demanding but transformative year that reshaped how the team addresses emerging challenges, from papermills and fast-churn science to the responsible use of AI, and how this work is laying a stronger foundation for trust in high-quality science.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rich medieval Danes bought graves ‘closer to God’ despite leprosy stigma, archaeologists find ]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Study of inequality in medieval graves shows that stigmatized illnesses didn’t bar people from socially prestigious burials ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bison hunters abandoned long-used site 1,100 years ago to adapt to changing climate]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[As drought and rising organizational demands for larger hunting operations hit at the same time, ancient hunters adapted to severe droughts by shifting the way and where they hunted, study shows]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brief, intensive exercise helps patients with panic disorder more than standard care]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A key technique of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder is interoceptive exposure, where patients learn to tolerate the physical effects of panic attacks through repeated simulated exposure. Now, scientists have shown in a randomized controlled trial that brief intermittent intensive exercise is more effective at reducing the severity of panic disorder than relaxation therapy.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michiel Dijkstra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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