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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>
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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>
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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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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frontiers Communications]]></dc:creator>
            <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>
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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[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[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>
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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[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>
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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>
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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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            <title><![CDATA[Modern forensic methods reveal human sacrifice in ancient Egypt]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Reinvestigating First Dynasty mass burials finds evidence for fatal blunt force trauma on 39% of skulls ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi – Rewriting Africa’s role in global science]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Professor Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi is a biochemist and environmental toxicologist at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. She has previously held several academic and administrative roles at the university, including Director of Academic Planning, Research, and Control and Director of Exchange and Linkages.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Underwater umbrellas for coral reefs could help protect against heat damage, study finds ]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Temporary shades placed over especially vulnerable Caribbean corals mitigate and even partly reverse bleaching driven by marine heatwaves ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Even high-altitude forests in Switzerland are now weakened by frequent droughts, making natural hazards more dangerous]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Essential ‘protective’ forests in highest tree belts were until recently shielded from climate change, but no longer]]></description>
            <link>https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/10/01/frontiers-forests-global-change-drought-threatening-swiss-protective-forests-even-in-highest-tree-belt</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michiel Dijkstra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dinos snacked on seafood washed up on ancient beaches, fossil study shows]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Dinos and their prey likely ate seaweeds, which offers an explanation to mysteriously high carbon isotope signatures in their teeth]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[We need a China-style 'laser focus' on scaling clean tech, Catalyse Europe president says]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[21 September 2026, New York City, USA – Speaking today at the Frontiers Science House panel in New York, Catalyse Europe president Ann Mettler has argued that siloed policy approaches in Europe are behind the lack of developing new emerging clean technologies over the past few decades.  ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Films written by women make studios the most money, but budget goes to male filmmakers]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Movies by female screenwriters top profit and return on investment rankings, but women are still severely underrepresented in the industry, highlighting a ‘capital allocation puzzle’]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Pirchner]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Solar geoengineering has no ‘showstopper’ risks, scientist tells New York panel]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[21 September 2026, New York City, USA – Solar geoengineering should be treated as a serious option for cooling the planet, a leading scientist has argued.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Brogan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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