72 news posts in Frontiers for Young Minds

Young Minds

15 Nov 2022

William Parsons – The Earl Who Found the Whirl!

We invite you to read the (forgotten) story of William Parsons – all about whirlpool galaxies.

Open science platform Frontiers publishes new Nobel Collection articles

Five more Nobel Prize winners publish free scientific article collection for children Last year in September, as many young people prepared to go back to school, the very first Nobel Collection, featuring articles written by Nobel Laureates, was launched by Frontiers for Young Minds (FYM), a unique, completely free, open access kids’ science journal. The Collection has been a huge success, having been viewed over half a million times online.   Today marks the release of the second Nobel Collection articles, connecting curious minds of all ages to exceptionally high-caliber scientists and offering exciting insights into the world of real science. As for all FYM publications, each of the five articles has been written for young people aged 8 to 15 and has been reviewed by kids themselves to ensure they are understandable, fun, and engaging. Photo credit: Frontiers Freely available to people everywhere from today, the 2022 Nobel Collection aims to ignite interest in various fields, and is comprised of the following contributions: Gravitational Waves – a new window on the Universe, written by Barry C. Barish, awarded The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017. Did you know that the phenomenon of gravitational waves was predicted by Einstein’s theory of General Relativity? In this […]

Young Minds

31 Oct 2022

Ignaz Semmelweis – The “Savior of Mothers”

We invite you to read the (forgotten) story of Ignaz Semmelweis – Wash your hands!

Young Minds

27 Sep 2022

Esther Lederberg – Pioneer in Microbial Genetics

We invite you to read the (forgotten) story of Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg

Young Minds

27 Sep 2022

Angelina Hesse – Enabling Bacterial Cultures

We invite you to read the story of “Lina” Hesse – Unsung agar hero

Young Minds

22 Sep 2022

Jocelyn Bell Burnell – Discovered Pulsars

We invite you to read the (forgotten) story of Jocelyn Bell Burnell – Radio astronomy pioneer

Young Minds

12 Jul 2022

Alfred Wallace – Overshadowed Pioneer

We invite you to read the tumultuous story of Alfred Russel Wallace – A pioneer of natural selection

Frontiers for Young Minds’ outreach to the Arabic community

Frontiers for Young Minds’ latest focus has been on the Arabic community: our Arabic journal translated version has already garnered 400K views and downloads.

Frontiers news

31 May 2022

Frontiers for Young Minds’ success at Open Education Global conference in Nantes

Frontiers for Young Minds participated in the three-day OE Global Conference in France, which focused on the connection between open education and the five action areas of the UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Recommendation.

Young Minds

04 May 2022

The Einstein–Besso Manuscript

Frontiers for Young Minds invites you to read a Landmark on Einstein’s Road to the General Theory of Relativity By Hanoch Gutfreund, of Physics and the Academic Head of the Albert Einstein Archives.