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Working Memory Training is Associated with Long Term Attainments in Math and Reading Stina Söderqvist* and Sissela Bergman Nutley Cueing Musical Emotions: An Empirical Analysis of 24-piece Sets by Bach and Chopin Documents Parallels with Emotional Speech Matthew Poon and Michael Schutz* Ghost-in-the-Machine Reveals Human Social Signals for Human-Robot Interaction Sebastian Loth*, Katharina Jettka, Manuel Giuliani and Jan P. de Ruiter Inter-Group Conflict and Cooperation: Field Experiments Before, During and After Sectarian Riots in Northern Ireland Antonio S....

We are delighted to announce that Queen Mary University of London 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. Queen Mary University of London supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this deal, eligible authors may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process....

Frontiers in Environmental Science is delighted to announce Prof. Martin Siegert as our Field Chief Editor! Martin Siegert is Professor of Geosciences and co-Director of the Grantham Institute, Imperial College London. He was formerly director of the Bristol Glaciology Centre, University of Bristol, and Head of the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at Reading University, where he gained his degree in Geological Geophysics, and at Cambridge University, where he was awarded his PhD in the numerical modelling of large ice sheets, at the Scott Polar Research Institute....

By Nina Hall, Frontiersin.org Shark fins are tempting targets for fishermen from Indonesian island communities because they have high monetary value and shark fishing is one of the most lucrative livelihoods in these remote coastal regions. The finning industry presents the main livelihood for fishermen in this region and the enormous profits have transformed remote coastal villages to cash-based communities. But in recent years, shark populations have seen a worrying drop in numbers....

A comprehensive literature review, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, helps us to understand why childhood trauma leads to an increased risk for psychosis. A recent comprehensive literature review, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, examines the link between childhood trauma and an increased risk for psychosis. Childhood trauma is the experience of a highly distressing event or situation during one’s youth, which is beyond a minor’s capacity for coping or control. Trauma encompasses many possible events, from enduring sexual or physical violence to facing the death of a parent....

Calling all astronomers and space scientists! Can you take your most recent publications and explain it to kids or teens in under 2000 words? Frontiers for Young Minds wants you to remember what it was like when you first fell in love with space as a kid – and consider writing about your current research for the next generation of young readers! Frontiers for Young Minds articles are written by experts and reviewed by young readers for their own peers....

We are proud to announce that Professor Themis Prodromakis, Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Nanotechnology and Specialty Chief Editor for Nanodevices section, has been shortlisted as finalist at the 2021 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom in the Physical Sciences and Engineering Category. This achievement recognizes Prof Prodomakis’ contribution to memristive technology and viable applications in the electronics industry. Prof Themis Prodromakis is the director of the Centre for Electronics Frontiers at the University of Southampton, UK....

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Mice who inhale CO2 within hours after forming a new fearful memory show more distress when subsequently prompted to retrieve the memory. This memory-strengthening effect of CO2 requires a functional ASIC1A gene in the mouse brain. The effect is time-dependent, unique to CO2, and specific to only certain types of memories, such as fearful sound cues or environmental contexts. Memories of a different type, such as remembering familiar objects, are weakened rather than strengthened by CO2....

Institute for Social Research (Institutt For Samfunnsforskning ) supports their authors in publishing open access. As part of this support, Institute for Social Research will cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible articles centrally for their eligible authors. Furthermore, the Institute for Social Research 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 Institute for Social Research....

Open Science, innovation and inspiration as Frontiers hits new milestones In the 21st century we face unprecedented challenges as a human race: climate change and its impacts on water, food and the environment, energy systems, population growth, poverty, global inequality and many more. Science is the motor of the world and the more open it is, the more we can innovate, invent, find solutions to these challenges and help to preserve our planet for future generations....

By Simona Pesce, Frontiers writer With the help of some ants, NASA scientists have developed an innovative concept to measure exactly how deep the snow layer is covering sea ice and mountains using a lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) instrument in space. The findings, published in Frontiers in Remote Sensing, reveal this new method will have several applications and provide more accurate measurements on the evolution of snowpack as a result of the climate crisis and better monitoring of water resources globally....

Bell Labs Shannon Visionary Award Professor Henry Markram, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers, was one of five global luminaries and visionaries honored with a Bell Labs Shannon Visionary Award on April 28, 2016. Bell Labs is the birthplace of the digital age. This is where Claude Elwood Shannon developed the idea that information can be represented by “zeroes” and “ones” and established a mathematical theory that explains just how. It is also where the first transistor was invented to electrically generate BITS....

Under the terms of the Sweden Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement, University West (Högskolan Väst) will cover Article Publishing Fees for eligible authors in any of the Frontiers journals. Eligible authors are corresponding authors of a given article who meet the funding criteria of the University West. To submit your article under this institutional agreement, it is recommended you submit with an email domain affiliated to your institution. When submitting your article, please select ‘University West’ as the institutional payer in the invoice section....

Evangelos Giakoumis is Specialty Chief Editor of Engine and Automotive Engineering, a new specialty in Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering “One of the greatest challenges the automotive industry faces today is the need to comply with the rapidly reducing vehicular CO2 limits. The EU target for passenger cars to be valid from 2021 is ‘only’ 95 g/km, yet the European Parliament has already voted a further 37.5% decrease in the CO2 emissions from 2030....

— by Emily Barker, Frontiersin.org Just ten-weeks of exercise is nearly 100% effective at protecting the heart from potentially lethal changes in heart rhythms. Professor George Billman, Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Physiology, works on preventing ventricular fibrillation, a very specific and potentially lethal change in cardiac rhythm, since 1980. In his current work, he has found that exercise could be the best non-pharmacological way to protect our hearts after sudden cardiac arrest....

By Mônica Favre, Ph.D., Frontiers Science Writer Neuroscientists are on their way to turn a person’s thoughts into speech producible by a device, to help victims of stroke and others with speech paralysis to communicate with their loved ones. Professor Robert T. Knight, M.D., and his team at UC Berkeley are working on finding a way to decode speech imagined in the human brain. “We learned that hearing words, speaking out loud or imagining words involves mechanisms and brain areas that overlap....

The study used data from 4,450 US adolescents to probe why some students shun math-intensive fields. Believing that solving tough math problems requires innate abilities might discourage students, the researchers reasoned. David Miller, Northwestern University “It’s OK – not everyone can do difficult math.” Believing such messages may deter both boys and girls from later majoring in physical science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, according to a new national, longitudinal study in the US published in Frontiers in Psychology....

Indigenous people take lead on conservation of boreal forests: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change By Jeff Wells, Natalie Dawson, Nada Culver, Frederic Reid and Shaunna Morgan Siegers A new paper in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change — The State of Conservation in North America’s Boreal Forest: Issues and Opportunities — showcases the global significance of one of the world’s largest remaining intact forest landscapes, the Boreal Forest biome of Canada and Alaska....

Microbes in cow stomachs can break down plastics, representing an eco-friendly way to reduce litter: Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology By Nora Belblidia, science writer Bacteria found in cow stomachs can be used to digest polyesters used in textiles, packaging, and compostable bags, according to a new study by the open access publisher Frontiers. Plastic is notoriously hard to break down, but microbial communities living inside the digestive system of animals are a promising but under-investigated source of novel enzymes that could do the trick....

Viruses hid themselves in your ancestors’ DNA. Now they’re waking up. — by Matthew Prior, Frontiers science writer What if the missing ‘environmental’ factor in some of our deadliest neurological diseases were really written in our genome? Writing in Frontiers in Genetics, researchers from the University of Düsseldorf explain how viruses ended up in our DNA – and what puts them in the frame in unsolved diseases like multiple sclerosis....