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Blow your mind with the world's best #brain scientists! 🤯🧠 Our new Collection features 10 Winners of the largest award in #neuroscience: The Brain Prize. Dive into #awardwinning research, told by the scientists and reviewed by kids: fro.ntiers.in/BrainPrize @lundbeckfonden
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Blow your mind with the world's best #brain scientists! 🤯🧠 We proudly present 10 Winners of the world's largest award in #neuroscience: The Brain Prize. Dive into #awardwinning research, told by the scientists and reviewed by kids: fro.ntiers.in/BrainPrize @lundbeckfonden
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#Darkmatter is not built of the same elementary #particles as our visible world, so there must be a new invisible particle. But what if there is a whole world of particles and forces? Explore what this #Dark Sector might look like: fro.ntiers.in/DarkWorld #darkmattertheory
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Kelp forests are a key ecosystem for many marine species, but they suffer from #plastic #pollution. #Microplastics are common, and marine animals easily swallow them. Discover microplastics in #kelp #forests, and how big the problem is for #marinelife: fro.ntiers.in/KelpForestPlas…
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Explore the fascinating world of #bats: the only mammals that can fly, who also protect our environment's health! Bats can carry #viruses that make us sick, yet they rarely get sick themselves - why? Discover bats' extraordinary #immunesystem: fro.ntiers.in/BatsVirus
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1 in 4 #children worldwide has a parent with a #mentalhealth issue: it really affects kids but they are not alone! Discover a project to support families, with professionals, their relatives and #community "village", and how it helps children AND #parents: fro.ntiers.in/ItTakesAVillag…
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Salmon are a key Pacific #Ocean #food source, and carry #sea nutrients to rivers and forests. But their numbers have dropped sharply. Scientists are studying ancient #salmon bones, to understand how their #environment has changed and how to protect them: fro.ntiers.in/CalSalmon
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Are there many copies of you in different #multiverses?! At the size of an atom, in the realm of #quantum #physics, things exist everywhere and nowhere at once, and observing something changes it. Explore two possible explanations for such phenomena: fro.ntiers.in/Multiverses
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Animals use #camouflage to hide from predators or to sneak up on #prey. How well it works depends on the animal's colour and shape, behavior and location, and also light and #predator's eyesight. Learn to spot the mysteries of camouflage! fro.ntiers.in/AnimalCamoufla… #wildlife
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#Climateanxiety is real. The more young people learn, the more paralysed they can feel. Discover our Meet the Speaker #video #interview: Head of Program Laura shares ideas and free resources to turn fear into curiosity and #action: fro.ntiers.in/MeettheSpeaker #wednesdaywatchlist
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Cancer develops when body #cells forget to stop growing, and multiply into a lump. Usually, our immune system destroys harmful cells, but #cancer cells can hide. Discover how the #immunesystem can learn to spot cancer cells using #Medicines laser light: fro.ntiers.in/FightCancer
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Frontiers for Young Minds retweeted
We all know that not everything we see online is true – and what we share can have consequences in the real world, especially in times of crisis. Before sharing content, pause to verify facts by asking basic questions and doing additional research.
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Frontiers for Young Minds retweeted
🌱 #OEAwards26 celebrates the people and practices that grow #OpenEducation And it's all up to you – who will you nominate? #OEAwards are open for nominations. @OpenEdGlobal invites you to sow the seeds of Open Education with your nomination! Start –> twp.ai/9OW4QK #Recognition
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Frontiers for Young Minds retweeted
A man just figured out how to pull drinking water straight out of thin air — in the middle of the desert. No wells. No pipes. No river for miles. Just sunlight and the sky. His name is Omar Yaghi, a chemist at UC Berkeley, and in 2025 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His machine can harvest up to 1,000 liters of clean water a day — even in air where the humidity drops below 20%. That's enough drinking water for roughly 500 people, every single day. The secret is a material he helped pioneer: metal-organic frameworks. Picture microscopic sponges, packed with millions of tiny pores. At night, as the air cools, the material quietly drinks in water vapor. By day, the sun heats it up, and the trapped moisture is released, condensed, and collected as pure drinking water. No external power. No filtration plant. The whole thing runs on sunlight. It's already been tested in one of the harshest places on the planet — Death Valley. The full-scale version is about the size of a shipping container, built to drop into communities where water is scarce or where disaster has wiped out the supply. He spent his career turning an idea almost nobody understood into water people can actually drink. And now the sky itself might become a tap. Source: The Guardian
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When people and #AI work together, we create #hybrid #collectiveintelligence. #Artificialintelligence makes mistakes, so humans must make the final decisions. Discover how to work with AI responsibly, and how we can solve big problems better as a team! fro.ntiers.in/AITeamwork
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Amazing results already coming in from a beautiful #medical #solution.
My heart is full of love for this. The UK’s first rooftop ICU at King’s College Hospital allows critically ill patients to receive life support outdoors, giving them fresh air, sunlight, and nature to support recovery and wellbeing. Patients reported a 20 percent reduction in pain relief meds required.
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Did you know #water insecurity can make inequalities worldwide? 🥤 Discover how some #women and #girls are impacted because they must collect water for their families, and how #WaterResources can help global #genderequality♀️ fro.ntiers.in/SDG5Equality #sundayreads #sdg5 #SDGs
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Meet young #researchers from around the world who are fixing problems with new #solutions. Discover their new ways to protect our environment, improve AI, explore the cosmos, make better medicine and more! 🌏🚀🔭💊📝 fro.ntiers.in/MSCACollection #youngresearchers @EU_Commission #MSCA
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Do you love #education and #learning? 👩🏾‍🏫📖🎓 Be part of Switzerland's biggest education festival, EduFest! Laura Henderson is speaking next week, Friday 5 June, to highlight FYM's innovative #ScienceEngagement. Discover more: edufest-rosey.ch/ #scienceforkids #EduFest
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You know mushrooms, but there are 2 MILLION species of #fungi! 🍄 Discover a mysterious, special group of microscopic fungi, the Laboulbeniales - "la-bools" for short - who look like aliens and can’t live without the creatures they live on: fro.ntiers.in/LaBools #scienceforkids
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