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14 Feb 2020

Are we alone? The search for new planets continues

Exoplanets, a new specialty section in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, is now open for submissions.

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12 Feb 2020

Postponed: Al Gore to lead global ‘healthy planet, healthy lives’ forum in Switzerland

Frontiers will host some of the world’s top scientists, policymakers, and industry leaders at our annual Forum in Montreux this May.

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06 Feb 2020

Frontiers eBook releases: February 2020

Download this month’s new releases including the latest Special Issues on Cystic Fibrosis, Neotropical Fishes, The Immune System and many more!

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04 Feb 2020

Coral Reef Research Collection wins $100,000 International Science Prize

A team of scientific editors has been awarded US $100,000 by Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers in recognition of an outstanding special issue research collection on coral reef science and conservation.

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30 Jan 2020

New Frontiers journal to address humanity’s global sustainability challenges

Led by Prof Sangwon Suh (University of California), the journal hopes to advance our understanding of the causes, current status and future prospects of global sustainability challenges.

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30 Jan 2020

Prof Darren Treadway becomes the new Specialty Chief Editor for Organizational Psychology

One of the largest sections in Frontiers in Psychology, encompassing all aspects of human behavior in an organization.

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14 Jan 2020

Frontiers eBooks published in December 2019

Download this month’s top releases including Special Issues on the Gut Microbiome, Alzheimer’s Disease, Working Dogs, and many more!

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19 Dec 2019

Apple study recognized in Altmetric’s Top 100 list

The annual list highlights the most discussed and shared research from the past year.

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13 Dec 2019

How do we feed future generations?

— by Daniel Sidoli The world’s population is expected to increase to 9.7 billion people by 2050 according to a United Nations report published in 2019. Frontiers in Agronomy will complement our sister journal Frontiers in Plant Science (IF 4.106, CiteScore 4.47), by providing an open platform dedicated to the applications of fundamental plant sciences to find solutions for feeding our planet’s growing population. The new journal brings together experts from academic, industry and policy spheres. Discover Frontiers in Agronomy “Maintaining and restoring soil health will ensure that we can produce food, fibre and fuel for future generations. We need to achieve this in the face of threats such as global climate change and an increased demand for food from a growing population,” says Professor David Jones of the University of Bangor, Specialty Chief Editor of Plant-Soil Interactions, one of six specialties within the new journal. Pests, disease and weeds Dr Murray Isman, Dean Emeritus of the University of British Columbia, believes we cannot feed a growing global human population “by expanding arable land that is already in limited supply. We must therefore be more efficient in producing food on the current land base. Globally, an average of 30% of our crops are lost to […]