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Frontiers’ journals saw large scale retractions—where does that leave the publisher’s reputation with researchers?

Frontiers’ journals saw large scale retractions—where does that leave the publisher’s reputation with researchers?

Brian OwensMar 27, 2024

Frontiers, like other for-profit open access publishers, has struggled with a perception it has low editorial standards and weak peer…

Your nationality may influence how much you talk with your hands

Your nationality may influence how much you talk with your hands

Brian OwensMar 26, 2024

When recounting an episode of the children’s TV show Pingu, people from Italy made an average of 22 gestures per…

Inexperience Diagnosing Syphilis Adding to Higher Rates

Inexperience Diagnosing Syphilis Adding to Higher Rates

Brian OwensMar 13, 2024

With rates of syphilis rising quickly in the United States and elsewhere, clinicians are having to up their game when…

Doxy-PEP Cut STIs in San Francisco in Half

Doxy-PEP Cut STIs in San Francisco in Half

Brian OwensMar 5, 2024

Syphilis and chlamydia infections were reduced by half among men who have sex with men and transgender women 1 year…

Plant-based soft robots could do medical procedures inside the body

Plant-based soft robots could do medical procedures inside the body

Brian OwensFeb 15, 2024

Tiny medical robots made of polymers derived from cellulose could one day travel through your body, delivering drugs, transporting cells,…

How safe are Great Lakes fish to eat? Depends on who you ask

How safe are Great Lakes fish to eat? Depends on who you ask

Brian OwensFeb 13, 2024

Catching and eating fish is a way of life for many people around the Great Lakes and connecting St. Lawrence…