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. This week, we talk to fellow Fronton Aurélie Pando, review operations specialist at Frontiers in Psychology, about volunteering for Planéte Enfants & Developpement, a child protection association that responds to the urgent need to protect children in danger while educating, growing, and integrating these future citizens. Frontiers’ volunteers have always been at the forefront of community and societal responses. This week, we talk to fellow Fronton Aurélie Pando, review operations specialist at Frontiers in Psychology, about volunteering for Planéte Enfants & Developpement, a child protection association that responds to the urgent need to protect children in danger while educating, growing, and integrating these future citizens....

by Emily Barker, Frontiersin.org We’ve all heard the term getting in the zone – that moment when everything just clicks. Often the idea of the zone has been associated with elites athletes, such as Olympiads, but what about ordinary people – can we get in the zone? That is what Kath Woodward, Frontiers Specialty Chief Editor for Gender, Sex and Sexuality Studies, and her team are trying to work out by looking at different areas such as sport, computer gaming and music....

A new research project wants to track if our politics is getting ruder or whether it’s the media – stupid! — Tanya Petersen “Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!” This is how US President, Donald Trump kicked off the new year – a welcome to 2017 tweet with an obvious dig....

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Polish scientists revealed the potential for new cancer drugs to be formulated from bioactive compounds found in plants from the genus Solanum, like potatoes and aubergines. Everyone knows someone who has had cancer. In 2020, around 19m new cases — and around 10m deaths — were registered worldwide. Treatments are improving all the time but can damage healthy cells or have severe side-effects which are hard on patients; in the search for new, more targeted cancer drugs, traditional medicine offers many possible candidates....

A preclinical study in test tubes showed that selected plant-based herbal medicines, especially Ghanaian quinine and Japanese knotweed, work better than antibiotics: Frontiers in Medicine — by Mischa Dykstra Lyme disease, also called borreliosis, is the most common vector-borne disease in the Northern hemisphere. It is caused by the spirochete (corkscrew-shaped) bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and close relatives and mainly spread through the bite of infected ticks. Currently, more than 300,000 new cases are reported in the USA each year, compared to 65,000 in Europe, and these numbers are rising due to climate change and urban sprawl....

Professor Vincent Harris of Northeastern University leads Quantum Materials specialty in Frontiers in Materials Specialty Chief Editor Professor Vincent Harris of Northeastern University, USA will lead Quantum Materials in Frontiers in Materials. Professor Harris is a University Distinguished Professor and the William Lincoln Smith Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. Recognized as the foremost authority on ferrite materials and high frequency devices, Professor Harris routinely serves as an expert panelist on topics of nanotechnology, magnetism and magnetic materials in areas of national and international science and technology....

Developmental lag in the circadian clock may facilitate sociality: Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology — by Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Individuals of the solitary bee Osmia bicornis show a 24-h behavioral cycle as soon as they emerge, unlike young honeybee workers who need to perform brood care around the clock and only develop a daily cycle later in life. This is reflected in a difference in the rate of brain development: in O....

Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of Illinois Chicago Supriya Dinesh Mehta leads and collaborates on clinical and community-based research that improves reproductive health. Today, we speak about challenges for women in science and discuss Supriya’s career path and her advice to young aspiring scientists. A pathway to find your true passion Author: Rita Moreira Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of Illinois Chicago Supriya Dinesh Mehta leads and collaborates on clinical and community-based research that improves reproductive health....

A study by NASA presents the first machine learning algorithm to help scientists detect magnetic eruptions: Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences By Miles Hatfield |NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA An alert pops up in your email: The latest spacecraft observations are ready. You now have 24 hours to scour 84 hours-worth of data, selecting the most promising split-second moments you can find. The data points you choose, depending on how you rank them, will download from the spacecraft in the highest possible resolution; researchers may spend months analyzing them....

Frontiers in Human Dynamics is a new journal dedicated to new discoveries about how humans adapt to change Humanity’s impact on the environment is enormous. A working group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (who define geological epochs) formally recognized the Anthropocene as the time period during which humans have had a drastic effect on the Earth and its ecosystems. At the same time, our environment continues to shape our lives and societies as well: we are witnessing automation of our jobs, gentrification of our cities and increases in global temperatures....

Injuries to Zambian lions and leopards caused by shotguns and wires snares greatly underestimated, finds new study in Frontiers in Conservation Science By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer The incidence of lion and leopard injuries caused by humans in Zambia is much higher than previously thought. Using a simple forensic examination technique, researchers found that injuries from entanglement in wire snares are present in 37% of lions and 22% of leopards in Zambia, while 27% of lions had shotgun pellets embedded in their skulls....

by Kirstin Sonne Artificial Intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly one of the buzzwords of our times and has become the subject of innumerable movies, TV series, novels and conspiracy theories. But despite the high-flying and fantastical predictions which appear ubiquitous in our popular culture, artificial intelligence is still surprisingly limited in many ways. Although computers are able to make calculations at a scale and speed that is unimaginable to humans, one of the areas in which we maintain a clear advantage over machines is in contextualizing information....

People tend to judge their environmental impact using moral intuition that evolved to handle social exchange — but these tree huggers may be doing more harm than good, say researchers; Frontiers in Psychology People tend to judge their environmental impact using moral intuition that evolved to handle social exchange — but these tree huggers may be doing more harm than good, say researchers — by Matthew Prior, Frontiers Science writer...

We are delighted to announce that Cardiff University has joined the national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers. 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. Cardiff University supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. Eligible Cardiff University authors will benefit from a 10% discount on Article Processing Charges (APCs) for articles covered by this agreement, together with a streamlined invoicing process....

Frontiers welcomes the news on the unanimous adaptation of The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science and recognizes the urgency of addressing complex and interconnected environmental, social and economic challenges facing the world and the vital importance of science, technology and innovation in response to these challenges. Frontiers’ chief executive editor Dr. Frederick Fenter: “Frontiers welcomes the news on the unanimous adoption of The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. Together with UNESCO, we recognize the urgency of addressing complex and interconnected environmental, social and economic challenges facing the world and the vital importance of science, technology and innovation in response to these challenges....

Ostfold University College (Høgskolen i Østfold / HiØ) supports their authors in publishing open access. As part of this support, Ostfold University College will cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible articles centrally for their eligible authors. Furthermore, Ostfold University College will benefit from a 10% membership discount under the terms of the UNIT Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement. Eligible authors are corresponding authors affiliated with Ostfold University College. Information for authors:...

Catch up with the most viewed articles from Frontiers in Oncology this May. All are Open Access – enjoy! Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)MoreClick to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)...

Neuro-mechanical determinants of repeated treadmill sprints – Usefulness of an ‘hypoxic to normoxic recovery’ approach Olivier Girard*, Franck Brocherie, Jean-Benoit Morin and Gregoire P. Millet Caloric restriction induces energy-sparing alterations in skeletal muscle contraction, fiber composition and local thyroid hormone metabolism that persist during catch-up fat upon refeeding Paula B. M. De Andrade, Laurence A. Neff, Miriam K. Strosova, Denis Arsenijevic, Ophélie Patthey-Vuadens, Leonardo Scapozza, Jean-Pierre Montani, Urs T. Ruegg, Abdul G....

Gayle McPherson and Laura Misener lead Sport, Leisure and Tourism in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living “Citius, altius, fortius” – faster, higher, stronger – is the Olympic motto. But sport events are more than a meeting between athletes to determine the fastest, highest or strongest. Participating in sport and leisure are a way to build community, explore new destinations as a tourist, and are used as a means of soft power between nations....

Last week, Frontiers for Young Minds took active participation in the five-day online OE Global Conference which focused on the connection of open education to the UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Recommendation. The Open Education Global Conference is the largest global conference for researchers, practitioners, policy makers and educators that explores open education and its impact on education worldwide. Last week, Frontiers for Young Minds participated in the five-day online OE Global Conference, which focused on the connection of open education to the UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Recommendation....