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Regular physical activity without shoes may improve children’s and adolescents’ balancing and jumping skills: Frontiers in Pediatrics Researchers show that regular physical activity without shoes may improve children’s and adolescents’ balancing and jumping skills — by Marissa Land, Frontiers science writer New research finds that children and adolescents who spend most of their time barefoot develop motor skills differently from those who habitually wear shoes. Published in Frontiers in Pediatrics, this is the first study to assess the relevance of growing up shod vs....

Below is a list of Frontiers eBooks published in February 2016. All Frontiers eBooks are free to download, share and distribute. Science: The Molecular Pathology of Cognitive Decline: Focus on Metals, hosted by Paul A. Adlard and Roger Chung Metals and Neurodegeneration: Restoring the Balance, hosted by Anthony R. White, Katja M. Kanninen and Peter J. Crouch Exploring Bacterial Colonies in Solid Foods or Model Foods Using Non-Destructive Techniques, hosted by Sophie Jeanson, Sylvie Lortal and Anne Thierry...

by Carla Aloe, Frontiersin.org For Peer Review Week we decided to talk to some of our Review Editors about their experience at Frontiers. Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal is a Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston. He earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University in 1994, and he was previously an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland....

Electroencephalograms could soon be used to read minds: Frontiers in Neuroscience By Jerrin Thomas Panachakel and Dr Angarai Ganesan Ramakrishnan, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Jerrin Thomas Panachakel is a PhD candidate at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IIS), Bangalore. He studies the use of artificial intelligence (so-called “Deep Learning”) to extract “imagined speech” — that is, thinking in the form of sound but not expressed in words or gestures — from EEG readings....

Frontiers attended the seminar “Selling science? News, public relations and communicating scientific research” organized by Phg Foundation in Cambridge. It was there that we had the pleasure to meet Dr. Andy Williams. Last week Frontiers attended the seminar “Selling science? News, public relations and communicating scientific research” organized by PHG Foundation in Cambridge. It was there that we had the pleasure to meet Dr. Andy Williams, lecturer at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies....

Frontiers in Education announces the launch of a new section – STEM Education to answer the unprecedented environmental challenges humanity is facing. From the phone you’re holding, to the WiFi being used right now, many technologies that are second nature to us are the successes of innovators in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). But the STEM field serves far more than our love for ever-evolving technologies. With a rapidly increasing population, we face an unprecedented environmental challenge to feed 9 billion people by 2050....

How to foster a transparent and competitive scholarly communication market in the digital era and incentivize researchers to use open science practices If Open Science is to be the modus operandi for science in the future — as the EU has proposed — how can we foster a transparent and competitive scholarly communication market in the digital era and incentivize researchers to use open science practices? Around 100 stakeholders representing researchers, universities and funders gathered to discuss these critical questions at a policy symposium organized by Frontiers, in cooperation with the Austrian EU presidency and SwissCore on 29 November 2018 in Brussels, Belgium....

Specialty Chief Editor Giovanni Meola receives Distinguished International Professor award Professor Giovanni Meola, Specialty Chief Editor of Neuromuscular Diseases in Frontiers in Neurology received the honor of being designated Distinguished International Professor as a result of his major clinical, teaching and scholarly contributions to the field of neurology. Professor Meola received his award during the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology. He has contributed to shedding light on the genetics of myotonic dystrophies....

As schools across the world close during the Coronavirus pandemic, how will young people continue to learn? ‘School’s closed, you say?’ For many kids the first thought may be ‘yeess’! But is being away from school for a while as good as it sounds? I chatted to some teachers, parents, online learning gurus and young people to find out how they’re keeping the learning going during social distancing.– by Jenny Lycett...

Dave Hodgson is a hard man to pin down. On a quest to address some of the great challenges in sedimentological, stratigraphic and diagenetic research, his work takes him from the hard, red plains of the Karoo Basin, South Africa, to the desolate landscapes of the Neuquén Basin, Argentina Professor Dave Hodgson of @stratleeds on the motivation behind his new section in Frontiers in Earth Science. – By Louisa Wood...

Songbirds’ innovative behavioral adaptation in urban environments has fitness costs and benefits. Cities are environments which bring humans and wildlife into close contact, where both parties must adjust their behavior to accommodate the activities of the other. Understanding how wildlife responds and adapts to human activity is important in a world of increasing urbanization. In Mexico City, Monserrat Suárez-Rodríguez et. al. studied a curious behavioral adaptation in common sparrows and finches, published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution as part of a Research Topic on behavioral and ecological consequences of urban life in birds....

Comparison of the greenhouse gases produced by lab-grown and farm-raised beef in the current energy system suggests that the benefits of reducing methane could be outweighed by increased CO2; Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Comparison of the greenhouse gases produced by lab-grown and farm-raised beef in the current energy system suggests that the benefits of reducing methane could be outweighed by increased CO2 Currently proposed types of lab-grown meat cannot provide a cure-all for the detrimental climate impacts of meat production without a large-scale transition to a decarbonized energy system, a new study has found....

Climate change worsens effect of eutrophication on coastal ecosystems: Frontiers in Marine Science By Conn Hastings, science writer Nutrient pollution in the oceans caused by human activity can significantly impact marine life. The process results in an explosion of plant and algal life in the sea that disrupts delicate marine ecosystems and destroys marine habitats. However, a new review highlights that the problem can be exacerbated by other human actions, such as climate change....

We are delighted to announce that Heriot-Watt 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. Heriot-Watt University 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....

Cochlear implants do not fully compensate for the cognitive decline that has been associated with the loss of hearing in the elderly: Frontiers in Neuroscience Cochlear implants do not fully compensate for the cognitive decline that has been associated with the loss of hearing in the elderly. — By Tania Fitzgeorge-Balfour, science writer Older adults fitted with a cochlear implant to compensate for severe hearing loss have significantly poorer cognitive function than their normal-hearing counterparts, reveals a new study....

Frontiers, home to some of the most cited open access science, has published an eBooks list for May 2017, being a compilation of academic research articles in Science, Health and Engineering Below is a list of Frontiers eBooks published in May 2017. All Frontiers eBooks are free to download, share and distribute. Science: Health: Engineering: Advancements in Algal Biofuels Research – Recent Evaluation of Algal Biomass Production and Conversion Methods of into Fuels and High Value Co-products, hosted by Umakanta Jena and S....

Stereotactic Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation for Early-Stage Breast Cancer: Rationale, Feasibility, and Early Experience Using the CyberKnife Radiosurgery Delivery Platform Olusola Obayomi-Davies*, Thomas P. Kole, Bridget Oppong, Sonali Rudra, Erini V. Makariou, Lloyd D. Campbell, Hozaifa M. Anjum, Sean P. Collins, Keith Unger, Shawna Willey, Eleni Tousimis and Brian T. Collins The FLUKA Code: An Accurate Simulation Tool for Particle Therapy Giuseppe Battistoni, Julia Bauer, Till T. Boehlen, Francesco Cerutti, Mary P....

STAT With a new owner, the hated ‘journal impact factor’ is overdue for a change The Scientist Web of Science Sold for More Than $3 Billion Vox The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists Nature Science’s status shifts in new Brexit government Chemistry World Explainer: what will Brexit mean for science? SocOpen Announcing the development of SocArXiv, an open social science archive JSTOR Publishing the presidents Huffington Post Open innovation, Open Science and open to the world...

Specialty Chief Editor Professor Jasper Van Der Gucht hopes to address the whole range of soft matter physics with this new journal section. — by Claudio Bogazzi Frontiers in Physics is pleased to announce the launch of a new section, Soft Matter Physics, led by Professor Jasper Van Der Gucht of Wageningen University & Research. Soft Matter Physics deals with a wide range of physical systems such as polymers, gels and colloids....

In silico study for diversing the molecular pathway of pigment formation: an alternative to manual coloring in cotton fibers Ammara Ahad*, Aftab Ahmad, Salahud Din, Abdul Q. Rao, Ahmad A. Shahid and Tayyab Husnain Evaluation on the effectiveness of 2-deoxyglucose-6-phosphate phosphatase (DOGR1) gene as a selectable marker for oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) embryogenic calli transformation mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens Abang Masli Dayang Izawati, Mat Yunus Abdul Masani, Ismail Ismanizan and Ghulam Kadir Ahmad Parveez*...