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Four babies born in Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus, did not show signs of infection: Frontiers in Pediatrics — By Peter Rejcek, Frontiers Science Writer Please note: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Frontiers is publishing the latest peer-reviewed research, evidence, and data to build and inform the wider scientific response. Research articles should not be considered public health advice. Finally, some good news has emerged about the novel coronavirus that has spread around the world....

Diabetes prevalence varies widely among different Hispanic heritage groups and in different Latin American countries, finds a study in Frontiers in Endocrinology. Hispanics form the largest minority group in the US, and are twice as likely to have diabetes compared with non-Hispanic whites — yet a new review highlights that nearly 40% of US Hispanics with diabetes have not been formally diagnosed. Published in Frontiers in Endocrinology ahead of World Diabetes Day, the study also finds that diabetes prevalence varies widely among different Hispanic heritage groups and in different Latin American countries....

By Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer 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, many often fly under the radar. Here are just five amazing papers you may have missed. Scientists eavesdrop on minke whale conversations in Hawai’i Scientists writing in Frontiers in Marine Science used hydrophones to study hard-to-spot minke whales in Hawai’i, learning that they use their ‘boing’ calls more frequently when they are close to other members of the same species....

Speaking with Sheena Talma, a marine scientist and deep-sea enthusiast from the Seychelles, about her journey into marine science, the importance of intersectionality and hopes for the future. Author: Thimedi Hetti Sheena Talma, a marine scientist and deep-sea enthusiast from the Seychelles, is a freelance consultant currently working as a science & knowledge exchange program manager at Nekton and D’Arros experience co-ordinator at Save Our Seas Foundation. Sheena is also a part-time lecturer at the University of Seychelles with some prior experience working at the Ministry of Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment....

By Suzanna Burgelman/ PhD student and fellow Trizah Koyi Milugo, ICIPE A preventable disease, malaria still threatens millions of people around the world. World Mosquito Day raises awareness about malaria and its transmission via mosquitos. Researchers such as PhD student Trizah Koyi Milugo focus their research on malaria control and prevention and, in her case, is researching the development of a novel tool for controlling malaria transmission. In 2019, 229m clinical cases of malaria occurred and 409,000 people died of the disease, most of them children in Africa....

Waist-to-hip ratio can signal sex, age, pregnancy, parity — as well as capacity for offspring brain development; Frontiers in Psychology Waist-to-hip ratio can signal sex, age, pregnancy and parity — as well as capacity for offspring brain development — by Matthew Prior, Frontiers science writer Male turkeys famously will attempt to mate with a head on a stick. In fact, gobblers prize a snug snood over the whole hen. How far then can a man’s ideal sexual partner be stripped?...

We are delighted to announce The Akershus University Hospital (Akershus Universitetssykehus) supports their authors in publishing open access. As part of this support, eligible authors from Akershus University Hospital 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 the Akershus University Hospital. Information for authors: To submit your article under this institutional agreement, please select ‘Akershus University Hospital’ as institutional payer in the invoice section when submitting your article....

By Hedwig Ens, Frontiers The impact of our dietary choices on the global phosphorus footprint shouldn’t be neglected, recent research in Frontiers in Nutrition shows. A shift towards a plant-based diet may be an undervalued solution toward decreasing our environmental impact and attaining phosphorus sustainability. Phosphorus is an element essential for all living beings and is thus critical in food production. Mined phosphate rock is a non-renewable global resource that is nowadays becoming increasingly scarce which poses a severe problem to the farming industry: it needs phosphorus in the form of fertilizers to sustain crop productivity....

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences is now being led by Professor Julio Navarro Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Julio Navarro as its new Field Chief Editor. Julio Navarro is the Lansdowne Science Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada. Professor Navarro is studying the evolution and the formation of galaxies and cluster of galaxies. He particularly focuses on their cosmological origin as well as on the structure and dynamics of their stellar, gaseous, and dark matter components....

The most viewed articles from the “Frontiers in” Neuroscience series of journals from July 2015. All articles 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)...

by Chloé Schmidt Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution is excited to announce a new article type: Flop! This announcement brought to you by “Your Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Team”. Conscious of the importance of negative results and reproducibility to the greater scientific community, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution is debuting the Flop article type. Flops will take negative results a step further, and give researchers a distinct venue to publish non-results from failed experiments....

By Pascal Rocha da Silva, Frontiers analyst Frontiers in Microbiology was launched in 2010. In just 4 years, it has become the 5th largest and the 12th most-cited Microbiology journal in the world. The Impact Factor (IF), defined as the total number of citations in a given year divided by the number of citable articles over the previous two-year period, is the most commonly accepted metric of journal quality (but not of an individual paper or researcher)....

What will happen to the Andean Páramos under climate change? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution By K.E.D. Coan, science writer The plants that live among the mountaintops of the Andes are among those most threatened by climate change because these species have no place left to go to escape rising temperatures. A recent study predicts how well a group of tropical alpine plants — relatives of sunflowers in the genus Espeletia — might adapt to both climate change and other human activities such as agriculture, mining and rising human populations....

The personality of a dog’s owner can predict outcomes of veterinary behavioral therapy: Frontiers in Veterinary Medicine By Peter Rejcek, science writer Canine behavioral problems are one of the leading causes of why pets are abandoned at shelters. Researchers have identified some of the key factors in both dogs and their owners that predict the success or failure of clinical interventions to correct problems like aggression or separation anxiety. This information may be valuable for veterinarians to provide better guidance to dog owners in future cases that require clinical intervention....

Three key habitat-building corals face worrying future due to climate crisis, shows new study in Frontiers in Marine Science By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer The climate crisis will lead to changes in distribution and habitat loss of stony corals in the tropical Atlantic, shows a new study published by the open access publisher Frontiers. The loss of such coral species could have devastating consequences for the marine ecosystems they inhabit....

Intercropping with grasses is an effective and sustainable alternative to chemical treatments for maximizing blueberry yield and antioxidant content in limey soils; Frontiers in Plant Science Intercropping with grasses is an effective and sustainable alternative to chemical treatments for maximizing blueberry yield and antioxidant content in limey soils — by Matthew Prior, Frontiers science writer Blueberries are prone to iron deficiency — and correcting it increases their health-enhancing antioxidant content, researchers have discovered....

Diatoms capture carbon dioxide from sea water through biophysical means: Frontiers in Plant Science By K.E.D. Coan, science writer A first-of-its-kind study suggests that microscopic seawater plants, called diatoms, initially capture CO2 by biophysical, rather than biochemical, processes. Diatoms remove as much CO2 as all of the world’s forests combined and it’s vital to understand how this process will respond to rising CO2 levels. This study presents initial evidence about precisely which mechanisms diatoms use in natural oceanic conditions and how sensitive they might be to changing ocean conditions....

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer A ‘desierto florido’ mass bloom happened in the northern Atacama desert in 2021, which was even visible from space. Researchers used advanced imaging techniques to measure the variation in flower color and pattern for the dominant species, the pussypaw Cistanthe longiscapa. They found that this variation is much greater when viewed by the UV-sensitive eyes of hymenopteran pollinators, and caused by differences in the mix of betalain pigments in the petals....

By Peter Rejcek, science writer The physics of how sperm navigate their way to an egg in mammals, including humans, are not well understood. The tendency for sperm to cluster together as they make their way upstream through the thickish, elastic-like fluid of the female reproductive tract is more than just random behavior. Researchers have found biological benefits for sperm working together that may have implications for fertility studies. It turns out sperm go against the flow better when they swim together....

Some young scientists have decided, as myself, to have a child during graduate school. Others, probably more numerous, wonder if this is wise. I am not going to dissect the pros and cons in certain situations – others have done this well, elsewhere. However, there is one aspect I believe can be generalized from such a personal experience, and it deserves weight in the decision. That is, having a child in graduate school goes way beyond “having a child in graduate school....