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20 Mar 2024
Machine learning tools can predict emotion in voices in just over a second
Scientists showed that machine learning tools can identify emotions from audio fragments lasting just 1.5 seconds on par with human ratings
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19 Mar 2024
Is your partner’s disturbed sleep keeping you up at night? Letting go of unattainable dreams may keep you both happy in bed
Research has now shown that the habit of letting go of unattainable goals helps people to stay satisfied with their romantic relationship if their partner experiences sleep problems. Such ‘letting go’ could also be learned, for example through training by clinical psychologists. But the results also showed that being too ready to replace unattainable goals with alternatives can worsen mutual satisfaction with a relationship, perhaps because this prevents spouses from putting more time and effort into it.
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15 Mar 2024
Women involved in car crashes may be more likely to go into shock than men
Using clinical data, researchers examined injury patters of car crash victims and found that women have an elevated shock index more often than men, even when their injuries are less severe
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12 Mar 2024
Beer byproduct behind Marmite could help us recycle metal waste
Scientists use spent brewer’s yeast, left over from manufacturing beer, to filter out metal from waste streams.
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12 Mar 2024
Chronic stress and inflammation linked to societal and environmental impacts in new study
Scientists hypothesize that as-yet unrecognized inflammatory stress is spreading among people at unprecedented rates and affecting our cognitive ability to address climate change, war, and other critical issues.
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11 Mar 2024
New dinosaur skeleton closes evolutionary gap: 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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08 Mar 2024
Many type 2 diabetes patients lack potentially life-saving knowledge about their disease
Scientists found that many people with type 2 diabetes know little about their condition, indicating a need to improve communication about the disease
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08 Mar 2024
Olusola Ololade - The lifeline of the future: The role of women scientists in water resource management
Dr Olusola (Shola) Oluwayemisi Ololade currently holds the position of associate professor and director for the Centre for Environmental Management at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. She is a member of the International Society for Development and Sustainability and the Organisation of Women in Science in Developing Countries (OWSD). She acts as advisor for young scholars working in the realm of Sustainable Development. Her research focuses on corporate environmental management and sustainability; water, pollution, and rehabilitation; biodiversity and conservation management; and tools and approaches to sustainable water resource management. This month, we are celebrating International Women’s Day and World Water Day. I am tremendously lucky to have been able to speak to Dr Ololade. She led me through her journey in water resource management in the African context, calling attention to the need for increased educational measures on water. We explore topics like inequalities in access to water, water reuse, groundwater management, and adaptation to water extremes.
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06 Mar 2024
Closing the research divide: Amplifying the voices of women in science
This International Women's Day, we have chosen 5 Research Topics hosted by women to find solutions to the most pressing women-related issues. Additionally, we have curated a list of 5 interviews that spotlight the experiences of female researchers across the globe.
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05 Mar 2024
Special insecticide paint may help curb zika and dengue fever outbreaks
Scientists showed that insecticide paint could effectively decrease mosquito presence in Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) for up to one year, making this paint a potential strategy to decrease the transmission of vector-borne diseases.
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05 Mar 2024
New ‘digital twin’ Earth could help predict water-based natural disasters before they strike
Scientists demonstrate the use of next-generation satellite data and advanced modeling to build virtual replicas of the terrestrial water cycle that can track water resources and create detailed simulations of flooding and other extreme events.
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05 Mar 2024
Frontiers joins UNITED2ACT to combat paper mills in scholarly publishing
The proliferation of ‘paper mills’ poses a real threat to research publishing integrity, as these practices undermine the credibility of scientific research, leading to an erosion of trust among researchers and the wider public. Frontiers joins UNITED2ACT to address the issue of paper mills and combat fraudulent practices in academic publishing.
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29 Feb 2024
Seeing the wood for the trees: how archaeologists use hazelnuts to reconstruct ancient woodlands
Archaeologists analyze the carbon isotope values of hazelnuts from ancient sites to see what the local woods were like.
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26 Feb 2024
How did a tiny bee get to French Polynesia? Eight new species help solve a scientific mystery
Scientists discovered eight new species of masked bee in Fiji, Micronesia, and Polynesia: relatives of Tuamotu’s masked bee from Tuamotu. For 59 years, this bee had been considered by experts to be a mysterious anomaly since its closest relatives, as far as was known at the time, lived 3,000 km further west. With the new species, discovered by sampling from the tree canopy, the mystery is solved: ancestors of Tuamotu’s masked bee reached Polynesia by island-hopping across Fiji and the southwestern Pacific. Many more new species are expected to be discovered in the canopy of islands along this route soon.
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21 Feb 2024
Bad bibliometrics don’t add up for research or why research publishing policy needs sound science
The integrity and reliability of bibliometric studies hold a pivotal role in shaping the trajectory of scientific research, influencing policy-making processes, and guiding the allocation of funding resources.