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01 May 2024
The popular kids in school may be sleeping less
Scientists found that popular teenagers sleep less than their peers, and that popular girls experience more insomnia symptoms than popular boys
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01 May 2024
Scientists found that popular teenagers sleep less than their peers, and that popular girls experience more insomnia symptoms than popular boys
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25 Apr 2024
It’s long been known that depression and cardiovascular disease are somehow related, though exactly how remained a puzzle. Now, researchers have identified a ‘gene module’ consisting of 256 functionally related, co-expressed genes, which is part of the developmental program of both diseases. These genes can now be used as biomarkers for both depression and cardiovascular disease, and could ultimately help to find new drugs to target both.
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25 Apr 2024
Scientists champion global genomic surveillance using latest technologies and a ‘One Health’ approach to protect against novel pathogens like avian influenza and antimicrobial resistance, catching epidemics before they start.
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23 Apr 2024
Using machine learning, scientists built more accurate models to predict heart disease risk and found that women are underdiagnosed compared to men, highlighting the need for sex-specific criteria
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19 Apr 2024
Scientists have shown for the first time that juvenile great white sharks gather in waters up to 10 meters deep with a temperature between 6 and 22 °C – a very different habitat from that of adults. These preferences may optimize their growth and minimize the risk of predation. These results can inform conservation efforts and help to avoid negative shark encounters.
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15 Apr 2024
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 cover all of them. Now, with Earth Day approaching on 22nd April, we take a look at just five recent papers that shine a light on why we must do everything to help protect our planet.
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08 Apr 2024
A major bottleneck on human heart transplantation are limits to storage of the donor heart outside the body, which is currently only routinely possible for six hours. Scientists have now tested new preservation methods, to keep pig hearts routinely alive outside the body for at least 24 hours. If successfully extended to humans, this would constitute a significant improvement to clinical practice.
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04 Apr 2024
Climate change, pollution, and collapsing biodiversity are damaging our immune systems, but improving the environment offers effective and fast-acting protection.
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02 Apr 2024
World Health Day 2024 rallies under the theme "My health, my right," demanding quality healthcare, clean air, and healthy environments for all. We have picked 7 Research Topics that tackle some of the world's toughest healthcare challenges to second this mission.
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28 Mar 2024
We take a moment to reflect on the information, resources, and actions taken over the past several months towards promoting longer, more prosperous lives on a healthier planet.
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28 Mar 2024
A pilot study shows that dogs can be taught to recognize the scent of trauma reactions on the breath, which could make PTSD assistance dogs more effective.
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27 Mar 2024
Materials scientists have now shown how the blood-like hemolymph of tobacco hornworm caterpillars forms clots to stop bleeding. They show that outside the body, hemolymph can instantaneously change from water-like behavior to become ‘viscoelastic’ like saliva, that is, combining viscosity with elasticity. This discovery could have medical applications, if drugs can be designed that induce a similar change in human blood, to make it clot faster.
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26 Mar 2024
Researchers found that Swedes and Italians use different gestures, which may reveal culturally different ways of conceptualizing narratives when telling a story
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25 Mar 2024
Open access publisher Frontiers has entered into a national transformed agreement with Sweden’s academic consortium Bibsam that will allow unlimited publishing in all Frontiers' open access journals without charge to authors or to institutions.
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25 Mar 2024
Images from telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope have expanded the way we see space. But what if you can’t see? Can stars be turned into sounds instead?