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Casting a genetic net identifies more marine vertebrates than traditional surveys but has limits: Frontiers in Marine Science — by NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region Tiny bits of DNA collected from waters off the West Coast allowed scientists to identify more species of marine vertebrates than traditional surveys with trawl nets. They also reflect environmental shifts such as unusual ocean temperatures that affect the organisms present, new research shows. The findings published in Frontiers in Marine Science demonstrate that environmental DNA, or eDNA, can add valuable detail to longstanding marine surveys....

By Maryam Clark and Mischa Dijkstra, science writers A new study shows that by feeding blood containing high levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin to female invasive city-dwelling mosquitos (Anopheles stephensi), we can decrease the mosquitos’ flight speed, and reduce their motivation to seek out a second blood meal. This suggests that we could ultimately prevent the mosquitos’ transmission of malaria, by manipulating the amount of host serotonin that mosquitos normally obtain from their blood meals....

Arthur J. Ragauskas, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Energy Research, wins the TAPPI Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award and the American Chemical Society’s Award for Affordable Green Chemistry The Technical Association of Paper and Pulp Industry (TAPPI) Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award is the highest honor that the association awards. It is given to those “who have made preeminent scientific and engineering achievements of proven applied benefit to the world’s pulp, paper, board, and forest product industries....

Drs Michael Moritz and Birgit Knoechel head Frontiers in Pediatrics as Chief Editors We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Michael Moritz and Dr. Birgit Knoechel as the new Field Chief Editors for Frontiers in Pediatrics. Dr. Moritz serves as Clinical Director of Pediatric Nephrology at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), and as Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine....

Multilinguals may be better equipped at multitasking: Frontiers in Psychology — by National Research University Higher School of Economics An international team of researchers carried out an experiment at HSE University demonstrating that knowledge of several languages can improve the performance of the human brain. In their study, published in Frontiers in Psychology, they registered a correlation between participants’ cognitive control and their proficiency in a second language. It is thought that bilinguals and multilinguals are better equipped to deal with multiple tasks and that they have a better attention than those who speak only one language....

With an Impact Factor of 2.089, Frontiers in Psychology is the most-cited journal in its field Frontiers in Psychology is the world’s most-cited journal in its field and ranks in the top Impact Factor and CiteScore percentiles Frontiers in Psychology continues to rank among the world’s top multidisciplinary psychology journals in terms of influence and quality, as shown by our analysis of the 2017 Journal Citation Reports (JCR-2017; 2018, Clarivate Analytics), 2017 CiteScore edition (2018, Scopus, Elsevier) and other impact metrics....

Catch up with the most viewed articles from Frontiers in Plant Science 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)...

Led by Prof Antonio Vita, Prof Tom Craig and Dr Andrew Molodynski, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Rehabilitation is a new specialty in Frontiers in Psychiatry “The science-to-service gap –that is, the gap between effective practices and those available and provided in mental health services– is one of the most relevant problems in the public mental health system” says Specialty Co-Chief Editor Antonio Vita. He believes the new Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Rehabilitation specialty in Frontiers in Psychiatry could be an ideal resource to integrate different approaches and to bridge the gap between science and practice....

Healthy women who use birth control pills are poorer judges of subtle facial expressions than non-users, according to new research; Frontiers in Neuroscience Healthy women who use birth control pills are poorer judges of subtle facial expressions than non-users, according to new research — by Matthew Prior, Frontiers science writer The pill could be blurring your social judgement – but perhaps not enough so you’d notice. By challenging women to identify complex emotional expressions like pride or contempt, rather than basic ones like happiness or fear, scientists have revealed subtle changes in emotion recognition associated with oral contraceptive pill (OCP) use....

A new approach tries to answer one of the oldest question of human history: “what is time?” – By Claudio Bogazzi, PhD, Science Writer – The passage of time is probably one of the simplest aspects of human perception. Time has always been associated with the passing of seasons and the cycles of celestial objects. And yet, modern physics does not have any special rule regarding the passage of time. Time does not flow....

High-tempo music may increase the benefits of exercise and reduce perceived effort: Frontiers in Psychology — by Conn Hastings, Frontiers Science Writer With the start of the new year, gyms are at their busiest and many people are trying to establish a workout routine to improve their health. Getting an edge by making exercise easier and more effective could be the difference between success and guiltily returning to the warm embrace of the couch....

The Specialty Chief Editors of Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems shared with us their key insights on why Open Access is important in food sustainability. The Specialty Chief Editors of Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems shared with us their key insights on why Open Access is so important in the field of food sustainability. “The food challenges are often solved in areas and forums, in which costly subscription to access articles is not viable or possible....

By Emily Barker, Frontiers Science Writer Dr. Michel Goldman, Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Medicine, recently founded at the Université libre de Bruxelles the Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation in healthcare (I3h). Thanks to the Fund Baillet-Latour, the I3h Institute will launch in February 2017 an innovative educational project in translational medicine for students enrolled in different master programs related to healthcare including medicine, pharmacy, public health, but also economics, engineering, and law....

Many rewarding careers have been launched through a paid internship at Frontiers. As one of the leading open-access publishers that is constantly developing innovations to enable knowledge to flow freely, we give early career academics the opportunity to branch out from research into research communication. “Doing an internship at Frontiers has been one of the best decisions I have made in my short career. I have had many internships but I was still unsure what career I would pursue....

By: John R. Porter, Helen Kimbell, Aida Finn, Catarina Alves, and Bhagirath Chauhan There’s a saying in science – ‘publish or perish’, meaning your ability to pursue a scientific career is highly dependent on the number and quality of papers you produce. In short, publications are your scientific currency. Writing papers helps your results to be confirmed or challenged by other scientists, allowing your findings to help move your field of interest forward....

About three years ago, Dr Nicola Dynes and Dr Petra Schwalie arrived at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) to do their first postdoc. Nicola is working on centrosomes, small non-membrane bound organelles that play a central role in cell division, in the institute of experimental cancer research, and Petra is part of a genetics and genomics lab in which her work is focused on fat cells and adipogenesis. Their labs are separated by just one building, but they actually met through the Life Science Postdoc Association at EPFL....

In-depth assessment of within-individual and inter-individual variation in the B cell receptor repertoire Jacob D. Galson*, Johannes Trück, Anna Fowler, Márton Münz, Vincenzo Cerundolo, Andrew J. Pollard, Gerton Lunter and Dominic F. Kelly Real-time imaging of resident T cells in human lung and ovarian carcinomas reveals how different tumor microenvironments control T lymphocyte migration Houcine Bougherara, Audrey Mansuet-Lupo, Marco Alifano, Charlotte Ngô, Diane Damotte, Marie-Aude Le Frère-Belda, Emmanuel Donnadieu* and Elisa Peranzoni...

tACS Phase Locking of Frontal Midline Theta Oscillations Disrupts Working Memory Performance Bankim S. Chander, Matthias Witkowski, Christoph Braun, Stephen E. Robinson, Jan Born, Leonardo G. Cohen, Niels Birbaumer and Surjo R. Soekadar* The Busier the Better: Greater Busyness Is Associated with Better Cognition Sara B. Festini*, Ian M. McDonough, and Denise C. Park* Prediction of Mortality Based on Facial Characteristics Arnaud Delorme*, Alan Pierce, Leena Michel and Dean Radin...

Similar to humans, males who drink alcohol alone spend less time with their partner compared to couples where both drink and those that never drink, finds a study in Frontiers in Psychiatry. Males who drink alone spend less time with their original female partner compared to couples where both drink alcohol and those which never drink. — By Conn Hastings A study of the effect of alcohol on long-term relationships finds that when a male prairie vole has access to alcohol, but his female partner doesn’t, the relationship suffers – similar to what has been observed in human couples....

Deinococcus bacteria can survive in outer space for years: Frontiers in Microbiology By Lucie Sammicheli, science writer The hypothesis called “panspermia” proposes an interplanetary transfer of life. Microbes inside shielding material such as rocks could be protected from UV-irradiation and survive during space travel as supported by the “lithopanspermia” theory. In this study, researchers show that even without rock shielding, aggregates of bacteria, if thick enough, could survive outer space conditions for several years, raising the new concept of “massapanspermia”....