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14 Jun 2024
Meet a scientist who's helping to create a 'shared vision' for future rewilding
As part of our Frontier Scientist series, we spoke to Dr Sally Hawkins, a specialist in wildlife restoration, about her career and research.
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12 Jun 2024
Scientists engineer human antibodies that could neutralize black widow toxin
Researchers develop fully human antibodies that can neutralize the alpha-latrotoxin of the European black widow, potentially reducing the need for antibodies derived from horses to treat disease caused by spider bites
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11 Jun 2024
How older people explore new spaces could suggest cognitive decline and dementia
Aging people commonly show a decline in navigation ability, and this has generally been attributed to worsening spatial memory. But now, researchers from the US have shown for the first time that this decline is partly driven by changes in typical exploration behavior by middle age. In a maze learning task, middle-aged people were less efficient explorers than young people. This discovery could have applications in the clinical diagnosis and therapy of cognitive decline and dementia.
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07 Jun 2024
Can we stay within planetary boundaries? Five Research Topics for a sustainable future
We share five Research Topics that explore some of the factors impacting the nine planetary boundaries.
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06 Jun 2024
How many days has it been since your last fit of laughter? 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.
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05 Jun 2024
Tiny tropical puddle frogs show that protecting genetic variation is essential for animals to survive the climate crisis
Scientists studied puddle frogs to identify genetic variation hotspots and places where the climate crisis could wipe out populations too homogenous to adapt.
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31 May 2024
Clues to mysterious disappearance of North America’s large mammals 50,000 years ago found within ancient bone collagen
Dr Mariya Antonosyan, Dr Torben Rick, and Prof Nicole Boivin are co-authors of a new Frontiers in Mammal Science article in which they used new methods to identify fossil bone fragments housed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. The insights they gained could help scientists better understand the causes and consequences of large mammal extinction.
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29 May 2024
‘Extraordinary’ 4,000-year-old Egyptian skull may show signs of attempts to treat cancer
Cutmarks on a 4,000-year-old skull could be indications that the ancient Egyptians tried to operate on excessive tissue growth or learn more about cancerous disorders after a patient’s death
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23 May 2024
Big data, AI, and personalized medicine: scientists reveal playbook aiming to revolutionize healthcare
The Covid-19 pandemic changed medicine forever – now scientists reveal a bold new vision for the healthcare of the future.
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22 May 2024
Babies in the womb exposed to two languages hear speech differently when born
Researchers have shown for the first time that newborns of monolingual mothers respond differently to playback of a carefully selected sound stimulus than newborns of bilingual mothers. The findings suggest that bilingual newborns are sensitive to a wider range of acoustic variation of speech, at the cost of being less selectively tuned in to any single language. These results underscore the importance of prenatal exposure for learning about speech.
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21 May 2024
Screen time not the main factor making parent-child interactions worse, study finds
Researchers investigated if ‘technoference’ has worse effects on parent-child interactions than non-digital distractions and found that distraction itself – not its source – may be to blame
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21 May 2024
Biodiversity loss: three Research Topics revealing threats and solutions
On International Day for Biological Diversity, we feature three Research Topics on the causes and consequences of biodiversity loss.
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17 May 2024
A devastating fire 2,200 years ago preserved a moment of life and war in Iron Age Spain — right down to a single gold earring
A violent blaze, possibly linked to the Carthaginian army crossing the Pyrenees to fight the Romans, flared up so quickly people couldn’t save their animals or their valuables
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13 May 2024
Five Research Topics exploring the science of mental health
This Mental Health Awareness Week, we highlight five Research Topics that help everyone achieve better mental health.
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07 May 2024
World’s deepest sinkhole discovered in Mexico: 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.