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            <title><![CDATA[From Romania to Kazakhstan, summer droughts linked to less winter ice in two rapidly warming seas]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Scientists show direct link between winter ice cover in Barents and Kara seas and summer drought in eastern Europe and central Asia]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michiel Dijkstra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scientists find some of the ‘very last wild and healthy ecosystems’ in the world’s oceans untouched by humans]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Remote atolls in the Pacific Ocean teem with life across habitats and may serve as reference to what has been lost elsewhere]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Amal Amin – Science as a bridge across borders: Advancing equity, peace, and sustainable development through science diplomacy]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Amal Amin is a Professor of Polymer Technology at Egypt’s National Research Centre (NRC). A chemist and materials scientist by training, Professor Amin is an internationally recognized leader in science diplomacy and advocacy for women and youth in STEM. She is founding chair of Women in Science Without Borders (WISWB), spanning over 90 countries, and the World Forum for Women in Science, co-founder of the Global Young Academy (GYA), and co-founder of the Egyptian Young Academy of Sciences (EYAS).]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frontiers Communications]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Despite sacrificing people after catastrophic El Niño flooding, ancient societies were generally peaceful ]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[‘Violence and social unraveling are not destined outcomes’: despite mass ritual sacrifices, everyday violence was extremely low in ancient Peruvian communities hit by climate disaster  ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Centuries-old cemetery helps scientists identify climate shocks as driver of Industrial Revolution disease]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Tooth defects and a burial register provide scientists with a fuller picture of factors contributing to childhood vitamin D deficiency and related diseases during England’s Industrial Revolution]]></description>
            <link>https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/11/05/centuries-old-cemetery-scientists-identify-climate-shocks-industrial-revolution-disease</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Frontiers institutional partnerships update – autumn 2026]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The latest news on our collaborations with research institutions, libraries, consortia, and funders.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/11/03/frontiers-institutional-partnerships-update-autumn-2026</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frontiers Communications]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sabina Alkire – Rethinking how we measure poverty: Why poverty cannot be defined by income alone]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[For more than two decades, economist, and priest Professor Sabina Alkire has been at the forefront of efforts to rethink how poverty is understood and measured. As Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford, she has dedicated her career to demonstrating why poverty cannot be defined by income alone.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frontiers Communications]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why does the right side of the brain control the left side of the body? An evolutionary history. ]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[This guest editorial by Daniel Wang and Martin Wessendorf explores cross-wired brain circuits in four-limbed animals and proposes a novel hypothesis about how they might have evolved.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mother bats’ hearts beat faster at the sound of their own babies’ cries ]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Japanese house bats’ heart rates respond strongly to the sound of their own pups’ cries, but not to the cries of other pups of the same age ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Baby manta rays hunker down close to coasts before facing the open ocean’s dangers]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Coastal areas offer young manta rays shelter and food before they travel open ocean as grown-ups, shows first study tracking manta ray movement in Central America]]></description>
            <link>https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/10/22/baby-manta-rays-coasts-open-ocean-dangers</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Frontiers in Science: Rebalancing the body’s cellular communication system could slow aging]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[New paper suggests coordinated targeting of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) could tackle multiple drivers of aging and age-related disease simultaneously.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Brogan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nighttime raids on invasive iguanas and one of the oldest animal fossils in the world: 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. Here are some images that showcase some of the newest findings published in the last month.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/10/21/nighttime-raids-invasive-iguanas-oldest-animal-fossils-world-frontiers-photo-highlights</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Frontiers pledges €1.6 million worth of support to make Horizon Europe research data AI-ready at AI in Science Summit]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Frontiers’ AI in Science Enablers pledge opens today. The pledge includes AI-powered data curation for 1,000 Horizon Europe datasets and 100 FAIR2 Data Publication Grants for early-career researchers, helping turn research data into peer-reviewed, citable outputs that are better prepared for reuse and AI applications.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mini brain organoids ‘reading’ Braille marks key step towards biohybrid computing ]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Three mini brain organoids working together performed significantly better than one brain organoid at a Braille encoding task, but scientists aren’t sure why]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Unsuspected discovery of abnormal antibodies could explain pediatric cancer]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Aberrant antibodies that attack DNA repair machinery in childhood could help predict later cancer risk]]></description>
            <link>https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/10/14/frontiers-immunology-abnormal-auto-antibodies-link-to-pediatric-cancer</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michiel Dijkstra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scientists discover ‘D-rex’, a giant fungus from Chinese forests whose unique lineage dates back 65 million years]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[‘Fungal giant’ with one of the tallest fruiting bodies known represents new family which arose soon after extinction of the dinosaurs]]></description>
            <link>https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/10/13/frontiers-fungal-biology-giant-fungus-yunnan-dianjunus-rex</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michiel Dijkstra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Frontiers and SANLiC announce national open access publishing agreement for South Africa]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Agreement between Frontiers and SANLiC gives eligible South African universities, research councils, and government research institutions streamlined access to open access publishing across Frontiers’ full journal portfolio.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Your favorite music could help reduce the pain of small medical procedures ]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Scientists find that playing patients’ favorite music during a cannulation minimizes pain ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Working around men may make women feel worse about mistakes, study finds]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[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’]]></description>
            <link>https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/10/08/working-around-men-women-feel-worse-mistakes</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The world’s oyster reefs could add $12 trillion to planetary health each year – if they were better managed]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Restored and protected, oyster reefs could deliver ecosystem services worth trillions to human wellbeing and the global economy]]></description>
            <link>https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/10/07/frontiers-marine-science-gross-ecological-product-oyster-reefs-worldwide</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michiel Dijkstra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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