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Oceans are the engines of our planet and open-science is improving communication between scientists and policy makers for their sustainable future use. –By Brittany Alexander The ocean provides us with billions of dollars in services including fisheries – a vital source of food and nutrition – renewable energy, oil and gas, tourism, transport, new medicines, industrial enzymes and recreation. But climate change, pollution and the over exploitation of resources are devastating the health of our oceans....

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....

Researchers from 180 UK universities can now benefit from a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing Researchers from 180 UK universities can now benefit from a national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections, which undertakes negotiations and licensing for digital content agreements on behalf of its members, and Frontiers, the 2nd largest fully open access publisher in the UK. This landmark deal provides a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing for researchers in the UK, who publish 7% of the world’s research....

Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Forests and Global Change reflects on the state of the world’s forests on International Day of Forests In celebration of the International Day of Forests, commemorated worldwide on 21 March, Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Forests and Global Change reflects on the state of the world’s forests and how little or how much we understand them. — by Mark A. Adams, Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Forests and Global Change...

Dr Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, former President of Mauritius joins Editorial Board of Ethnopharmacology in Frontiers in Pharmacology “More than 60% of medicines sold at the chemist’s are of natural origin. Scientists always return to nature for new leads,” says new Associate Editor of Ethnopharmacology, Dr Ameenah Gurib-Fakim. “Mauritius is one of the biodiversity hotspots in the world and with a high level of endemicity. This local treasure had hardly been explored scientifically and yet we are facing the onslaught of climate change and the loss of many endemic species still unknown to science....

by Liam Drew, Frontiers Science Writer It was always thought that olfactory receptors’ sole bodily function was to smell, and could only be found inside a nose. But now a new study, published in Frontiers in Physiology, has found two olfactory receptors in human lung tissue. And when the researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany activated these receptors, they found that they regulated the way in which the airways smooth muscle cells contracted....

Extreme heat harms forest-dwelling bird chicks more than city ones, finds a new study in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution By K.E.D Coan, science writer Forest bird nestlings are significantly smaller and more likely to die as a result of extreme heat compared to their urban counterparts, reports a new study. This research is among the first to measure the joint impact of urbanization and the climate crisis on wild vertebrate animals....

Frontiers in Blockchain announces fully-funded article collection on Inclusive Stakeholding and a $10,000 research prize This prize will be awarded by the Yun Family and affiliate entities to the Best Paper in the “Inclusive Stakeholding: Reimagining Incentives to Promote the Greater Good” article collection, for which Article Processing Charges will be waived for all authors submitting to this article collection. In addition, submitting your manuscript means you could be awarded $10,000 for your research....

Why do some animals eat or abandon their offspring? According to researchers at the University of Tennessee and the University of Oxford, these might actually be forms of parental care; Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution This Easter, researchers reveal why some parents eat their kids’ eggs: it’s because they care — by Matthew Prior, Frontiers science writer As you bite into a chocolate bunny or egg this weekend, consider this: rabbits often eat their own young, and hens their own eggs....

How do brain activity patterns change when people learn new a language? Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience Caitlin Devor / University of Tokyo A study with first-time learners of Japanese has measured how brain activity changes after just a few months of studying a new language. The results show that acquiring a new language initially boosts brain activity, which then reduces as language skills improve. “In the first few months, you can quantitatively measure language-skill improvement by tracking brain activations,” says professor Kuniyoshi L....

A groundbreaking new non-invasive technique may help scientists locate rare whale species in the ocean: Frontiers in Marine Science The groundbreaking, non-invasive technique may help scientists locate rare whale species. — By Oregon State University When endangered killer whales, or orcas, swim through the sheltered waters of Puget Sound in Oregon, USA, they leave behind traces of “environmental DNA” — which researchers can detect as much as two hours later, a new study has found....

By Daisy Hessenberger, Frontiers science writer Professor Joav Merrick is a busy man. Medical director of the Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services in Israel, in his spare time he works as a professor at various other institutions. His appointments span not just continents, but also specialties. He is professor of paediatrics, child health and human development at both the Hebrew University and the University of Kentucky, while also holding a professorship in public health at Georgia State University....

By Peter Rejcek, science writer A crewed mission to Mars will require transporting equipment for creating electricity to power life support systems. The choice for the type of device used will require a tradeoff between mass and energy efficiency. Researchers here show that a photovoltaic system using compressed hydrogen energy storage can compete with nuclear energy across about 50% of the Red Planet. No other planet in our solar system has sparked the human imagination more than Mars....

Frontiers Science Hero: Egidio D’Angelo from Frontiers on Vimeo. For Prof. Egidio D’Angelo the brain provides many challenges that are waiting to be resolved, but for him it is like going on an adventure. “In many parts of the brain, you follow a track that moves from cellular and molecular properties up to microcircuit and into the complexity of brain connectivity. Investigating the brain is an adventure that, for a scientist, means connecting the lower level to the higher level of brain functioning....

Noa Segev shares her experiences of working with Nobel Prize Winners. By Noa Segev, FYM Project Coordinator If you had the chance to meet a Nobel Laureate, what would you ask them? This is exactly the question that occupied my mind three years ago, before my first interview with Professor Dan Shechtman, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011. Working with the Frontiers for Young Minds team, I was coordinating an article which would eventually be published as our Nobel Collection, and this was the first step....

If you’re smoking right now, this means there’s a ten-percent chance of the following: either your cigarette has been legitimately manufactured in one nation and then smuggled into yours, or it has been illegitimately manufactured, often as a counterfeit item and often in a manner that doesn’t comply with health and safety legislation. We all know the dangers of tobacco. Bad breath, poor teeth and high blood pressure are only three of the blights you can expect if you’re one of the billion people worldwide who light up on a regular basis....

By Peter Rejcek, science writer Beginning at an early age, children can perform simple mathematical calculations using an intuitive ability to compare and estimate sets of objects. A new study published to Frontiers suggests this approximate number system extends to division. We often think of multiplication and division as calculations that need to be taught in school. But a large body of research suggests that, even before children begin formal education, they possess intuitive arithmetic abilities....

Professor Chaomei Chen is leading Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics We live in an age of knowledge: there are 8 million researchers worldwide, who publish over 3 million scholarly articles per year, a number that is still growing rapidly year-on-year. While we see many incredible innovations as a result, there are unsolved questions about the practice of doing research: How can we ensure new information is implemented in policies to benefit all?...

We are delighted to announce the publication of a new eBook presenting cutting edge themes on weather systems: “Circulation Weather types as a tool in atmospheric, climate and environmental research”, published under Frontiers in Environmental Science, hosted by: Alexandre M. Ramos, David Barriopedro, Emanuel Dutra. We hope this achievement serves as a stepping stone to inspire future research topics in our journal. You can take a look at the eBook here: http://fron....

Chief Editors of new specialty in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology encourage researchers to focus on the interactions between virus and host Viruses continue to present humanity with major challenges, in terms of threats to health and quality of life. Furthermore, the continual appearance of novel variants or cross species virus transmission represents major global threats for the future. A new specialty on Virus and Host in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology...