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Deborah Pirchner
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Featured news
09 Apr 2025
Our power, our planet: Five Frontiers articles for Earth Day
Earth Day, an annual event to show support for the protection of the Earth and what’s living on it, is almost upon us. To celebrate, we’re highlighting five recently published Frontiers articles on energy, ecosystems, and the environment.
Environment
08 Apr 2025
Trees could be spying on illegal gold mining operations in the Amazon rainforest
By examining mercury concentrations in tree rings, researchers showed that trees could be witnesses to illegal gold mining activities in the Amazon, highlighting their potential as biomonitors
Featured news
28 Mar 2025
Those constantly distracted by their phone will just find other ways to procrastinate if it isn’t nearby
A researcher put physical distance between people and their phones and found that our devices may not be the cause of our distraction – it’s what we do with them.
Featured news
18 Mar 2025
Social media pressures could make friendship a full-time job
Perception of social media features and norms, especially highly visual content and availability expectations, could lead to teens experiencing digital stress that might give rise to fights with friends
Featured news
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.
Life sciences
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.
Featured news
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.
Featured news
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
Environment
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
Featured news
12 Feb 2025
500-year-old Transylvanian diaries show how the Little Ice Age completely changed life and death in the region
Tapping into ‘society’s archive’, researchers have examined written sources from the 16th century that chronicle famine, excessive flooding, and plagues in what today is Romania.
Featured news
07 Feb 2025
Relationships that shape us: here are five Frontiers articles on social relationships for Valentine’s Day
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. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we’re taking a look at some papers that help us understand how the relationships we have with the people around us shape our lives.
Featured news
06 Feb 2025
Efforts to find alien life could be boosted by simple test that gets microbes moving
Scientists explored microbial movement as a possible biosignature to detect life on Mars and beyond, cheaper and faster than ever before.
Space sciences and astronomy
03 Feb 2025
Can ocean-floor mining oversights help us regulate space debris and mining on the Moon?
Space belongs to no-one, yet many nations and private entities now plan to lay their claim on its resources. In a recent Frontiers in Space Technologies article, Nishith Mishra, Martina Elia Vitoloni and Dr Joseph Pelton shared their thoughts about how plans to exploit the ocean floors could impact the way resources from space are used and managed.
Featured news
27 Jan 2025
Drones could be the ‘magic tools’ we need to chase bears away from people
Starting in 2017, Wesley Sarmento was the first prairie-based bear manager at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, a job that regularly put him right in between massive grizzly bears and people. He is also the author of a new Frontiers in Conservation Science article in which he describes the effectiveness of different methods that aimed to deter bears from human settlements, avoid conflicts between wildlife and locals, and help the successful conservation of the species. In the following guest editorial, he describes his seven-year-long search for the most effective hazing method.
Health
13 Jan 2025
Not all carbs are created equal: Here are five Frontiers articles for a healthy start into the new year
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.