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13 Mar 2025
Round up, just below, or precise amount? Choosing the final price of a product may be just a cultural thing
Researchers established a link between cultural dimensions and prevalence of round, just below, and precise prices.
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11 Mar 2025
New research reveals how a 252 million year old climate crisis accompanied the ‘Great Dying’ mass extinction event, completely reorganizing the Earth’s ecosystems
By comparing climate models to fossil vegetation, scientists trace the remains of climate chaos following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction — including 10 degrees of global warming caused by CO2 emissions.
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07 Mar 2025
Suicide, the music industry, and a call to action
Dr George Musgrave is both a musician and an academic, with first-hand experience of the music industry’s challenges. In this guest editorial, inspired by their moving and urgent new article in Frontiers in Public Health, he and co-author Dr Dorian Lamis, who is a clinical psychologist and suicide prevention expert, turn the spotlight on the toll of death by suicide in the music industry, and call for immediate action to support vulnerable artists.
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06 Mar 2025
University of Kansas and Frontiers renew flat fee open access agreement for 2025
The University of Kansas (KU) and award-winning open science platform Frontiers are pleased to announce the renewal of their open-access publishing partnership for an additional year. Initially established in 2024, this agreement maintains its terms to provide KU researchers with seamless, cost-free access to publish in all Frontiers journals.
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05 Mar 2025
How one researcher equipped with a smartphone is creating detailed reports on the insides of stranded sea creatures
Q&A with Brendan Cottrell, who, with co-authors, investigated the practicality of using smartphones to create 3D scans of stranded marine life that can aid in postmortem examinations and help scientists and conservationists protect marine species.
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03 Mar 2025
Eating, training, and living healthy as a woman: New research for International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women and aims to accelerate women’s equality. Gearing up for March 8th, we’re highlighting recent Frontiers research on women’s health, professional lives, and societal status.
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03 Mar 2025
Reimagining FAIR for an AI World: Frontiers introduces FAIR² Data Management
On Open Data Day 2025, Frontiers is launching the FAIR² (FAIR Squared™) Data Management Pilot, a first-of-its-kind peer-reviewed service that helps researchers get credited and cited for their work while making data AI-ready, reusable, and impactful. FAIR² Data Management leverages AI-assisted curation to structure research data for publication, making it easier to find, reuse, and analyze—both by humans and machines—so researchers can focus on discovery rather than data preparation. By making datasets shareable and optimized for reuse, FAIR² Data Management enhances research efficiency and reproducibility, accelerating breakthroughs in global health, planetary sustainability, and scientific innovation.
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28 Feb 2025
Why don’t pandas eat more meat? Molecules found in bamboo may be behind their plant-based diet
Researchers found miRNA – tiny bamboo molecules – could enter giant pandas’ bloodstream and facilitate the adaptation to a bamboo-based diet
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27 Feb 2025
Taking sports science in her stride: how Dr Nerea Casal García aims to maximise performance on the track
Casal García is the corresponding author of a new article in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, which reveals a pronounced recent shift of stride patterns during elite women's 400 meters hurdle competitions. She has kindly taken the time to share some thoughts about her career and research as part of our Frontier Scientist series.
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26 Feb 2025
Frontiers and ZB MED mark second year of national agreement to strengthen open access publishing in Germany
Frontiers is pleased to announce the continuation of its partnership with the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) into a second year. Building on the successful collaboration established in 2024, this agreement reinforces our shared commitment to advancing open science by providing researchers across Germany with seamless, cost-effective access to gold open access publishing.
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25 Feb 2025
Laser-powered device tested on Earth could help us detect microbial fossils on Mars
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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21 Feb 2025
Hurricane-proofed downtown skyscrapers unexpectedly vulnerable to ‘bouncing’ winds
In May 2024, a type of windstorm called derecho caused considerable damage to the facades of Houston’s tall buildings, which had been designed to withstand stronger, hurricane-strength winds. In contrast, hurricane Beryl in July 2024 caused only minimal damage to the same buildings. Researchers analyzed the damage from this derecho and used wind-tunnel modeling to simulate its unique wind loading effects on miniature tall buildings. They concluded that besides interference between groups of tall buildings, the unique characteristics of local events like derechos worsened the structural damage. This finding has implications for the design of future tall buildings and urban planning.
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20 Feb 2025
‘Fog harvesting’ could yield water for drinking and agriculture in the world’s driest regions
A field study spanning a year showed that water collected from fog could ease water scarcity affecting vulnerable populations living in Chile’s Atacama Desert
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18 Feb 2025
Restoring African grassland habitats makes life more peaceful for humans and wildlife, scientists find
Conservation researchers working on grassland restoration in Kenya found that larger areas of restored habitat reduced both social conflicts and human-wildlife conflicts.
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14 Feb 2025
Dangerous bacteria lurk in hospital sink drains, despite rigorous cleaning
Researchers from Spain sampled sink drains from different wards in a single modern university hospital where state-of-the-art cleaning protocols are adhered to. Through culturing and DNA barcoding, they found 67 species of bacteria. These included Klebsiella, Enterobacter, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, notorious for their potential to cause healthcare-associated infections. Several strains detected proved resistant to modern antibiotics, including cephalosporins and carbapenems. Sink drains thus appear to function as reservoirs for known and emerging pathogens of concern.