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‘Smart bandage’ may help solve a major problem when treating chronic wounds

Frontiers

By Conn Hastings, Science writer. Technology presented in a new study in open-access journal Frontiers in Physics could help. This new ‘smart bandage’ contains a sensor that can very sensitively measure wound moisture levels and then transmit the data to a nearby smartphone, without requiring doctors to remove the bandage.

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‘Many kids go through a phase where they want to be a marine scientist. For me, it wasn’t a phase’

Frontiers

by Patricia Albano / Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Patricia stands with remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer during an expedition to explore the deep waters off the West Florida Shelf. Image: Patricia Albano. What inspired you to become a researcher?

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Frontiers responds to the US National Institutes of Health’s call on public access to science

Frontiers

A summary of our response We support a scalable, cost efficient, transparent publishing model that delivers public value for money, and we think Gold Open Access publishing is the most effective way of securing that outcome. Frontiers is a leading research publisher and open science platform.

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New low-cost camera could help scientists forecast volcano eruptions affecting millions

Frontiers

By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Monitoring emissions from volcanoes – particularly sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) using specialized cameras – is important for hazard forecasting. They have now published an article about the camera design and two initial datasets in Frontiers in Earth Science.

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Confronting the Climate Crisis with Scientist Activism: the Essential Role of Rule Breakers

Union of Concerned Scientists

Ricardo Salvador Why break the rules: The moral dilemma of the “ well-behaved ” scientist Science must be objective. The magnitude of the climate threat, made clear by climate science, has cracked through a longstanding scientific culture that holds that science should exist outside of the political realm.

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POLLINATORS! The Musical Coming To Millbrook Marsh Nature Center, State College Sept. 11

PA Environment Daily

By Alexandra McLaughlin, Penn State News Penn State Extension Master Gardeners from Centre County recently debuted “POLLINATORS! This free educational event will include monarch tagging and other activities between the shows. People start with monarchs, and then it opens the door to interest in other pollinators.”

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How dancing honey bees could help us save pollinators

Frontiers

As an open access publisher, Frontiers has several research topics focused on pollinator research. Check out this post on our news site for a curated list. In these experiments, we train honey bees that are individually marked with a little number tag to collect sugar syrup from an artificial feeder at a known location.

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