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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[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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            <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[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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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Brogan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meet a scientist who’s dedicated decades to solving one of prosthetics’ biggest problems ]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Prof Joan Sanders of the University of Washington has spent her career working on better prosthetics for lower limb amputees, trying to solve problems that complicate everyday life for people who have lost a limb. She is the first author of a new article in Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, which reports the development of a quick, efficient method for making prosthesis sockets with built-in sensors that monitor the socket’s changing fit in real time — like a shoe that becomes more or less comfortable the more it’s worn. In the future, this could help prosthetists track a patient’s changing needs and adapt the socket to fit better. 

In this Frontier Scientists Q&A, Sanders tells us about her decades of problem-solving research, and her work building the foundations for a new generation of adjustable, comfortable prosthetics that don’t need constant management by their users. ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Discover underwater and mountain worlds: 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>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Frontiers in Science: New way to assess pace of aging could accelerate anti-aging breakthroughs]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[12 candidate indicators, based on studies in mice, could make developing anti-aging interventions faster—while offering new insights into age-related diseases.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Brogan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Chimpanzees give youngsters the tools to learn tricky techniques]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Adult chimpanzees deliberately create learning opportunities for infants by handing over tools ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michiel Dijkstra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Inside peer review: roundtable with three Chief Editors]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[As we mark 10 years of Peer Review Week, we sat down for a roundtable with three Frontiers Chief Editors to discuss the reasons why scientists peer review, how open dialogue elevates valid science, and responsible use of AI.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[No cities on the Moon — there isn’t enough water, scientists say]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The discovery of water at the poles of the Moon has inspired speculation about whether we can build there – cities, industrial neighborhoods, places where people work and live. But is there enough water, and can we use it efficiently enough? In their new article in Frontiers in Space Technologies, Dr Martin Elvis and Dr Jonathan McDowell do the math. Even at the most generous estimates of the available water and recycling efficiency, a city of one million people would only last 100 years before all the water runs out. In this guest editorial, Elvis breaks down what we can and can’t do with the technology available.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[GPS collars reveal secrets of the power struggle between lions and hyenas in the wild]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Mapping real-time interactions of lions and hyenas unveils a hidden side of their rivalry]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘Marmots have money troubles too’: Prof Dan Blumstein on the origin of ‘OnlyMarms’ and what made it a roaring success]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The story of Prof Dan Blumstein’s decision to share videos of the marmots in the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory’s field study on an OnlyFans account called OnlyMarms has captured the world over the last few weeks. 64 years of research into marmots can provide incredible insights into their evolution and socioecology, but the study is as expensive to run as it is valuable — and funding challenges have forced Blumstein, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA and Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Conservation Science, to innovate in new and surprising ways. In this instalment of Frontier Scientists, Blumstein explains to us why this long-running study of yellow-bellied marmots is so important for science, how funding losses are putting it at risk, and how he’s fighting back. ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scientists discover the key ingredients that make birdsong pretty ]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Research in Germany shows that birdsongs which are varied, higher-pitched, and not too loud are considered most pleasant — with blackbird songs taking the top prize ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Frontiers in Science: Medical AI could move from treatment to prevention]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[AI could move from treating disease to predicting and preventing it, but only if a persistent gap between technical capability and patient benefit is closed, according to a new article published today in Frontiers in Science. ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Brogan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Some Galápagos ‘yellow’ sea turtles remain homebodies, surprising scientists ]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[‘Yellow-morph' green turtles in the Galápagos are stay-at-homes who often remain near a single island]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michiel Dijkstra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Watch these puppies to lower your blood pressure: 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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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The hidden high costs of ‘free-to-play’ videogames show players need better protection, scientists say]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[We know playing slot machines can trigger uncontrolled spending and addictive behaviors in some people. But what about paid-for features in ‘free-to-play’ games? Microtransactions like loot boxes or paid progression within a game can add up quickly and easily. In their new article in Frontiers in Public Health, Dr Markus Meschik and his colleagues investigate who spends the most among children playing these games, and how the heaviest spenders are affected, showing higher rates of traits associated with gambling disorder and gaming disorder. In this guest editorial, Meschik and coauthor Dr Mark Griffiths break down the hidden threat of microtransactions, and how regulation could tackle it.  ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Angharad Brewer Gillham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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