Environment
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.
Environment
Seagrass seedlings come from sexual reproduction, not cloning, preserving essential genetic diversity
Featured news
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
Featured news
Accessible digital tool recording writing speed and number of strokes in complex handwriting tasks could aid diagnosis of cognitive decline, study shows
Health
Enabled by global heating, mosquito-borne chikungunya virus is likely to spread into temperate regions
Health
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.
Health
Humans exposed to infrasound don’t detect it, but have raised cortisol and irritability levels — offering a possible explanation for ‘haunted’ locations .
Health
Cognitively stimulating home can protect against higher risk of ADHD and peer relationship problems in preschoolers with congenital heart disease
Neuroscience
Accessible digital tool recording writing speed and number of strokes in complex handwriting tasks could aid diagnosis of cognitive decline, study shows
Neuroscience
Dr Maria Santacà describes how not only how fish and birds perceive their worlds, but also how ecological pressures shape the evolution of perception.
Neuroscience
Scientists find that words you’ve been told to recall are better remembered than words with negative emotional connotations — but surprisingly, sleeping doesn’t help.
Neuroscience
Listening to joyful music helped study participants with motion sickness recover better than other participants — while sad music helped less than doing nothing.
Environment
Seagrass seedlings come from sexual reproduction, not cloning, preserving essential genetic diversity
Environment
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.
Environment
Immediate call for global action to shift world towards a “nature positive” approach is published in Frontiers in Science.
Environment
‘Microbial cross-feeding’ and previously unknown enzymes help community of bacteria to digest toxic phthalate esters
Psychology
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.
Psychology
For better play, give children space to choose and accessible games, scientists say
Psychology
Research shows that problems with focus and identifying emotions may make young people more vulnerable to short video addiction, but mental training can help
Psychology
With less than one month before the holidays, many of us are gearing up for the annual Christmas shopping extravaganza. We’re highlighting five articles you won’t want to miss before hitting the shops.
Space sciences and astronomy
Scientists have shown for the first time that solar activity can predict the rate at which space junk and satellites descend from orbit
Space sciences and astronomy
What if future planetary robots did not have to wait for instructions from Earth before examining every rock?
Space sciences and astronomy
Guest editorial by Prof Heidi Newberg, an astrophysicist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and author of a new Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences article
Space sciences and astronomy
Scientists successfully identify microbe fossils in terrestrial rocks like those found on Mars, opening up the possibility of searching for fossils on the Red Planet.
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