Institutional partnerships
20 Dec 2024
Frontiers institutional partnerships update – autumn 2024
The latest news on our collaborations with research institutions, libraries, consortia, and funders.
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Frontiers updates
19 Dec 2024
2024 in review: a message from our CEO
We reflect on some highlights of 2024, a year in which quality and research integrity continued to be at the top of our agenda, and some significant achievements as we continue to champion open science.
Frontiers news
19 Dec 2024
Championing Change: Women in Science 2024 year in review
As another year of the Frontiers Women in Science blog series comes to a close, I reflect on the success and impact it has had, and the continued importance of having a platform like this today.
Young Minds
18 Dec 2024
Frontiers for Young Minds Nobel Collection: Three new Nobel Prize-winning breakthroughs shared by Laureates with young readers
Frontiers for Young Minds, an award-winning science engagement journal for kids, is proud to share three new articles written by Nobel Prize-winners. These three Laureates now bring the total of Nobel winners published in FYM to 33 and form the beginning of the new Volume 4 of the Collection.
Featured news
17 Dec 2024
Patients whose allergies cause the sniffles have different fungi living in their noses, compared to healthy people
Scientists investigated the noses of people with asthma and allergic rhinitis and found that the fungi in their noses are different to healthy people, suggesting future targets for treatments.
Frontiers news
16 Dec 2024
Frontiers requests open dialogue and transparent evidence regarding JUFO evaluation
The julkaisufoorumi (JUFO) is a national classification forum created by the Finnish scientific community to support the assessment of quality scholarly journals. While Frontiers supports all efforts by research communities and publishers to uphold and improve journal quality, we and the researchers we work with are deeply concerned by JUFO’s confirmed decision (16 December) to change en masse the classification of Gold Open Access journals.
Featured news
16 Dec 2024
Completing the timetree of primates: a new way to map the evolutionary history of life on Earth
In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr Jack M Craig, Dr Blair Hedges, and Dr Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that encompasses 455 primates, every species for which genetic data are available. The tree, the most complete of its kind, shows the evolutionary timescale of the whole order of primates, including monkeys, apes, lemurs, lorises, and galagos. In the following guest editorial, Dr Craig describes the steps of obtaining an almost complete timetree for primates and explains the value of such data.
Featured news
12 Dec 2024
Sleepers made from recycled plastic could make railways even more eco-friendly
Part of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from railways lie in the energy used to produce and maintain the necessary infrastructure. Researchers from Finland here showed the feasibility of using more eco-friendly railway sleepers from two types of recycled plastic, liquid packaging board and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene. Carbon emissions saved each year by phasing out concrete sleepers and replacing them with such recycled plastic could amount to the equivalent of heating for 1,200 Finnish households.
Featured news
09 Dec 2024
Sugary drinks significantly raise cardiovascular disease risk, but occasional sweet treats don’t, scientists find
A large-scale study in Sweden suggests that drinking sweetened drinks significantly increases your risk of serious cardiovascular disease, but limited consumption of treats doesn’t.
Featured news
06 Dec 2024
3D scans of giant hailstones reveal surprising discoveries that could help predict future storms
Scientists used CT scans to learn more about the anatomy of hailstones, information which could advance hail formation forecasting
Frontiers news
06 Dec 2024
Open Letter to Sari Multala, Minister of Science and Culture, Finland, and the JUFO steering group
An open letter was published today on openletter.earth from concerned researchers in Finland responding to the JUFO decision regarding Frontiers.
Social science
05 Dec 2024
What dampens and spurs our festive shopping desire? Here are five Frontiers articles you won’t want to miss
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. Here are just five amazing papers you may have missed.
Featured news
05 Dec 2024
Gene editing and plant domestication essential to protect food supplies in a worsening climate, scientists say
To continue producing enough food for the world, we need to adapt our crops by changing their genetic code or by domesticating their more resilient ancestors
Health
04 Dec 2024
Broken sleep a hallmark sign of living with this common liver disease, scientists find
Researchers from Switzerland have shown that patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) suffer poor sleep due to sleep fragmentation and wakefulness. Patients with the more severe form metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH) or with cirrhosis, but not healthy volunteers, experienced similar sleep disturbances. Whether poor sleep causes MASLD or vice versa isn’t yet clear. A single sleep hygiene education session proved insufficient to sustainably improve sleep quality and quantity.
Featured news
03 Dec 2024
Experts reveal how revolutionary technological advances could use the sun to source hydrogen fuel
Crucial advances in technology could allow us to harness the power of the sun to split water into hydrogen and oxygen and siphon off renewable fuel