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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience study suggests that hormonal changes during the menstrual cycle have no impact on aspects of cognition — By Angharad Brewer Gillham A new study published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience today is setting out to change the way we think about the menstrual cycle. While it’s often been assumed that anyone who’s menstruating isn’t working at top mental pitch, Professor Brigitte Leeners and her team of researchers have found evidence to suggest that that’s not the case....

A new ‘green’ material made from solid wastes and natural polymers promises better results than activated carbon in adsorbing pollution: Frontiers in Chemistry A new ‘green’ material made from solid wastes and natural polymers promises better results than activated carbon in adsorbing pollutants in wastewater and air A new class of low-cost and sustainable hybrid materials could possibly displace activated carbon as the preferred choice for reducing wastewater and air pollution....

The Guardian Opening up scientific publishing for the Flickr generation Nature Peer review: troubled from the start Science Magazine New research ship highlight of otherwise flat NSF budget bill in Senate Inside HPC e-IRG roadmap to help shape European Open Science cloud Fortune Academic publishing faces down an unrepentant pirate The Guardian It’s time to stand up to greedy academic publishers Washington Post How open science can help solve Zika and prepare us for the next pandemic...

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week Chronicle of Higher Education ‘We need to take a look at the data’: how 2 persistent grad students upended a blockbuster study New York Times Retraction sought in study on views of gay marriage Science Open-access publisher sacks 31 editors amid fierce row over independence Frontiers Blog Frontiers acts to defend distributed editorial independence The Conversation Publisher pushback puts open access in peril...

On 15 July 2022, Stephan Kuster, head of public affairs at Frontiers, gave a speech at the closing reception of the EuroScience Open Forum, Europe’s largest interdisciplinary science conference. Thank you, Professor Breedveld. Good evening. My name is Stephan Kuster. I am head of public affairs at Frontiers. I joined Frontiers because we are a fully open access, research publisher whose mission is clear and simply put. We want to make all science open....

By K.E.D. Coan, science writer In the tropics, when conflict affected countries transition to peace, deforestation often increases. But the reasons behind this trend are neither simple nor generalizable, reports a new study from Colombia. By looking at a range of agricultural and societal drivers at multiple scales, this research shows that different factors promote forest loss. Accounting for these variations will be important for developing more effective conservation strategies in the future....

Radiation detectors and imaging, a new specialty in Frontiers in Physics has been launched and is led by Cinzia Da Via. — By Rossella Rebecchi The new specialty section of Frontiers in Physics focuses on cutting-edge nuclear physics research on detectors technologies, combining it with different multi-disciplinary applications able to positively affect a big variety of research disciplines, from Medicine and Biology to Atomic, Nuclear and Space Physics, without forgetting Homeland Security and Environmental monitoring....

Key structural differences in the virus’s spike protein between the viruses that cause SARS and Covid-19: Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences By University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Communications ► Read original press release An effort led by Lin Li, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics at The University of Texas at El Paso, in collaboration with students and faculty from Howard University, has identified key variants that help explain the differences between the viruses that cause COVID-19 and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)....

Specialty Chief Editor of Conservation, Krithi Karanth has been recognized with the Women of Discovery award. Specialty Chief Editor of Conservation, Krithi Karanth has been recognized with the Women of Discovery award. The prestigious award recognizes outstanding women in science. Dr. Karanth’s research spans over 20 years and encompasses a broad range of issues examining human dimensions of wildlife conservation in Asia. She has conducted extensive research on conservation issues including mammal extinctions, anthropogenic pressures, voluntary resettlement of people, tourism trends, human-wildlife conflicts, and resource and land use change....

This month’s Frontiers Staff Pick comes from Victor Kouassi. Victor is a Journal Operations Assistant and before joining us at Frontiers, was at the Francis Crick Institute in London where he conducted research on the immune responses of malaria. With his background in this field, he found the article “Major Histocompatibility Complex and Malaria: Focus on Plasmodium vivax Infection” interesting. It was published in Frontiers in Immunology late January 2016....

In recognition of the “Chemistry Colors our World” theme of Chemistry Week today’s experiment is a colorful one – we are conducting the red cabbage pH indicator experiment. By Laura Smart In order to understand the experiment we must first consider a few questions. What is pH? Why is it important to measure pH? How can we measure pH? What is an indicator? What is pH? pH is defined as the negative logarithm of the concentration of H+ ions in solution and is a measure of the acidity of a solution....

Frontiers is pleased to announce Dr Marie Soulière, head of publishing operations, has been elected as a Council Member to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Frontiers is pleased to announce Dr Marie Soulière, head of publishing operations, has been elected as a Council Member to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). COPE, the non-profit international body that defines best practice in the ethics of scholarly publishing, announced the results of its Council elections earlier this week....

As a publisher, it is our duty to ensure that the business fundamentals behind Frontiers are sound and sustainable. We are responsible towards the community, to the more than 60,000 researchers who have formally joined our editorial boards, to the 140,000 authors who have published with us, and to our employees. In 2014, the annual cost of traditional, subscription-based scholarly journal publishing was $14 Billion [1]. This money comes mostly from your university libraries, which are supported by the overheads from your grants....

Frontiers is pleased to announce the continuation of its open-access publishing agreement with University College London (UCL). Swiss open-access publisher and research network, Frontiers is pleased to announce the continuation of its open-access publishing agreement with University College London (UCL). Since September last year, almost 100 authors affiliated with UCL have benefited from this publishing agreement, which enables researchers to publish their work in the “Frontiers in” journal series, with UCL covering the article publishing fees....

Frontiers for Young Minds is excited to announce its second live review event which will take place at the Chabot Space and Science Center as part of the Bay Area Science Festival. The team will be coming together once again to welcome our scientists who will have the difficult task of presenting their work to our panel of Young Reviewers. This year, four papers will be presented to our panel of six curious young minds!...

Only brain activity involving ‘L5p neurons’ enters conscious awareness, says new theory; Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience Only brain activity involving ‘L5p neurons’ enters conscious awareness, says new theory — by Matthew Prior, Frontiers science writer No-one knows what connects awareness – the state of consciousness – with its contents, i.e. thoughts and experiences. Now researchers propose an elegant solution: a literal, structural connection. ‘Content circuits’ within the cortex are plugged into ‘switchboard circuits’ that allocate awareness, says the theory, via cortical cells called L5p neurons....

Catch up with the most viewed articles from Frontiers in Oncology this July. 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)...

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer A randomized controlled trial shows for the first time that for physical exercise, the time of day affects its effectiveness. Whether morning or evening exercise is more effective depends on type of exercise and training objectives, and differs between women and men. But even when time of day isn’t taken into account, the new multimodal weekly exercise program presented here improves health and performance for both sexes....

From a tool to share figures in a citable way, to a system that tracks and reports on academics’ grants and publications, an increasing number of start-up companies are ‘spinning out’ of academic institutions worldwide. Many recent examples are not from traditional tech-transfer offices. They are researchers frustrated by not having the effective tools necessary to do their work, so they are building their own. As part of an ESOF 2014 panel session on this growing trend, Kamila Markram, a neuroscientist and autism researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), will talk about her experience of co-founding and leading Frontiers....

Frontiers in Psychiatry is pleased to announce the launch of its newest section, Computational Psychiatry Frontiers in Psychiatry is pleased to announce the launch of its newest section, Computational Psychiatry, led by Dr Qiyong Gong of the West China Hospital, Sichuan University in China. Dr Gong stresses that the biggest challenge facing the field of computational psychiatry today is how to speed up the clinical translation of the scientific discoveries resulting from imaging advances, citing the new clinical subspecialty of psychoradiology as a key example of this....