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10 Mar 2026

Narel Paniagua Zambrana – "You Cannot Conserve What You Do Not Know": Documenting Plant Knowledge to Protect Culture and Biodiversity

World Wildlife Day 2026 shines a spotlight on wild animals and plants, with this year's theme, “Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Conserving Health, Heritage and Livelihoods.” To mark the day, we spoke with Dr Narel Paniagua Zambrana, an ethnobotanist whose career reflects both scientific leadership and the growing visibility of women in plant and environmental sciences. Her work explores how plant knowledge is learned, practiced, and passed on, often through gendered systems of care, healing, and cultural transmission.

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05 Mar 2026

How do you know you can trust the science you read?

It doesn’t happen by chance. Behind every article published in a Frontiers journal lies a structured, rigorous, seven-stage journey designed to safeguard integrity and protect the scientific record. At a time when scientific publishing faces growing challenges - from AI-generated and manufactured manuscripts to coordinated fraud - maintaining confidence in research has never been more important, demanding increasing vigilance at every step.

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19 Feb 2026

Frontiers Women in Science – Five years on

Looking back at 2025, our fifth year publishing the Women in Science blog series, I feel an immense sense of pride in what we have achieved as a group. With 76 insightful articles published over the past five years, it is clear that women researchers continue to need a dedicated platform with readers who remain strongly engaged with their stories. In 2025, we featured nine interviews with researchers from across the globe, spanning from wildlife conservation to education, from climate change to LGBTQ+ rights, highlighting both the diversity of their work and the global relevance of their voices.

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12 Feb 2026

Advancing research integrity in 2025: leading with action and impact

At Frontiers, research integrity and quality sit at the heart of everything we publish. Supporting this commitment is our dedicated Research Integrity team, working behind the scenes to safeguard the scientific record at scale. In her latest blog, Elena Vicario, Director of Research Integrity, reflects on 2025 - a demanding but transformative year that reshaped how the team addresses emerging challenges, from papermills and fast-churn science to the responsible use of AI, and how this work is laying a stronger foundation for trust in high-quality science.

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22 Jan 2026

Draghi Tracker launched to measure and accelerate European innovation and competitiveness at Davos’ Frontiers Science House

André Loesekrug-Pietri, Chairman and Scientific Director of the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI), today announced the launch of the "Draghi Tracker," a quarterly progress report measuring Europe's implementation of the Draghi report on competitiveness. The announcement was made during a session at Science House, held on the Davos Promenade during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026. The tracker aims to empower policymakers, industry leaders, and researchers to move from discussion to action on innovation and competitiveness across Europe.

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21 Jan 2026

“Antimicrobial resistance pandemic will kill more people than cancer by 2050 and no one at Davos is talking about it" – leading scientists speak out at Frontiers Science House

At Frontiers Science House, Vanina Laurent Ledru, Chief Public Health and Government Affairs Officer of Institut Merieux and bioMerieux, warned that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will be the next “pandemic” like COVID-19, killing more people than cancer by 2050. Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and Adèle James, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer of Phagos, urged immediate global action against AMR.