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            <title><![CDATA[Frontiers wins two awards at the 2026 EPIC Awards for pioneering work on AI in publishing and research integrity]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Frontiers wins a gold award and a silver award at the 2026 EPIC Awards of the Society for Scholarly Publishing – for a landmark whitepaper on AI in research and publishing, and a digital campaign making research integrity visible.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘We cannot ban our way out of a youth mental health crisis’: social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Bans on teenagers’ social media use are gathering pace worldwide. Their proponents claim that social media bans will improve young people’s mental health, but what evidence supports these claims? In their new Frontiers in Developmental Psychology article, Dr Monika Neff Lind and her co-authors argue that there is no solid scientific evidence behind these bans, and reason to believe they could backfire. In this guest editorial, Neff Lind explains why she and her colleagues doubt that social media bans will work, and how bans should be evaluated to determine whether they have any positive effects.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[North America and Europe could become hotspots for chikungunya virus due to climate change]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Enabled by global heating, mosquito-borne chikungunya virus is likely to spread into temperate regions]]></description>
            <link>https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/05/27/frontiers-cellular-and-infection-microbiology-forecast-chikungunya-virus-spread-into-temperate-zone-by-2100</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michiel Dijkstra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rattlesnakes among most vulnerable to fungal disease and parasitic lung infection]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Disease in snakes could pile up following a first infection, with some species in the US particularly affected by certain pathogens, study of wild snakes shows]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Seagrass found to ‘give birth’ to new genetic individuals rather than clone itself, offering hope for our underwater gardens ]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Seagrass seedlings come from sexual reproduction, not cloning, preserving essential genetic diversity ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Frontiers in Science: How AI could help scientists secure soil—a vital global resource]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Soils store carbon, sustain ecosystems, and underpin global food and water systems. A new Frontiers in Science paper details how AI tools can help us adapt soils—and the systems they nurture—to a changing climate.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Brogan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Handwriting speed among possible signs of cognitive decline in older people]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Accessible digital tool recording writing speed and number of strokes in complex handwriting tasks could aid diagnosis of cognitive decline, study shows]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[DNA floating in seawater is now enough to let scientists monitor the health of America’s dolphin populations]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Scientists shows that simply sampling seawater can reveal health of dolphin populations, in a first for conservation]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michiel Dijkstra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Balding seals and invasive crocs: 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>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Baby bugs must play ‘game of roulette’ to find survival partners before time runs out]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Leaffooted bug nymphs face ‘existential challenge’ that includes dangerous journey down trees to acquire bacterial symbionts needed to survive and grow, study shows]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[New tectonic plate boundary could be forming in Zambia, scientists say]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Helium isotope readings from geothermal springs indicate that the Kafue Rift has broken through the Earth’s crust]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How jellyfish bycatch could be valuable collagen source for cosmetics and biotech]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Q&A with Dr Ainara Ballesteros and Raquel Torres, authors of a new Frontiers in Marine Science article on the use of jellyfish bycatch as a sustainable collagen source]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Frontiers in Science: AI-embodied surgical robots can revolutionize surgery—if regulatory questions addressed]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Embodying surgical robots with next-gen AI can safely augment practice if ethical and regulatory questions are addressed, say experts writing today in Frontiers in Science. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Key magic mushroom ingredient makes fish less aggressive and lazier ]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Chemical compound in magic mushrooms may reduce energetically costly social behaviors like aggressive swimming bursts, shows study demonstrating first evidence of calming effect in fish]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[“Trusted science must be the lighthouse in the storm”]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Pioneer of open data sharing in infectious disease research, Ilaria Capua reflects on how the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped public trust in science, why health systems remain vulnerable to future crises, and what must change if we are to move from reaction to prevention. Capua argues that the next five years will be decisive for connecting health, sustainability, and scientific openness. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Space junk falls to Earth faster when sunspots peak, and this can help prevent collisions with satellites]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Scientists have shown for the first time that solar activity can predict the rate at which space junk and satellites descend from orbit]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michiel Dijkstra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mind the detection gap: why publishing needs a multilayered defense against industrial-scale papermills]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Combating papermill activity is critical to protecting the integrity of the scientific record. An effective response to papermills — and to upholding research integrity more broadly — requires a multilayered approach.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘They weren’t burned by accident’: burned stone, child’s bones, and lost jewelry could reveal prehistoric mining camp high in the Pyrenees ]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Archaeologists uncover possible evidence of ancient copper smelting spanning more than 2,000 years in a mountain cave more than 2,000 meters above sea level ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Seals get their hearts racing to detox after foraging trips at sea]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Fur seals back on land speed up their heart to clear waste products and replenish oxygen stores]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michiel Dijkstra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ann-Beth Nygaard Møller - Maternal health does not exist in isolation: Creating a future where pregnancy and childbirth are safe, dignified, and equitable]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[World Health Day 2026 shines a spotlight on the intersection of science and global well-being, with this year’s theme, “Together for health. Stand with science.” The day calls for greater research, collaboration, and accountability in improving health outcomes, goals that sit at the heart of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3): ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Within SDG 3, target 3.1 sets a clear benchmark: reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to fewer than 70 deaths per 100,000 live births by 2030, a target the world remains far from reaching. 

To mark the day, we spoke with Dr Ann-Beth Nygaard Møller, an independent researcher affiliated with the University of Gothenburg, whose career reflects both scientific rigor and the growing recognition that maternal health is a matter of human rights. Her work explores how data systems, quality of care, and global collaboration can be strengthened to reduce preventable maternal and newborn deaths. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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