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Children aged 8–15 have collaborated with leading neuroscientists and winners of The Brain Prize to review articles explaining breakthrough brain research in a new Frontiers for Young Minds collection published today. Each article was reviewed by young reviewers aged 8-15, who worked with the scientists to make complex neuroscience topics easy to understand for their peers.

Antipredator training for pregnant Pacific pocket mice makes pups more vigilant, preparing them better for release into the wild

Bans on teenagers’ social media use are gathering pace worldwide. Their proponents claim that social media bans will improve young people’s mental health, but what evidence supports these claims? In their new Frontiers in Developmental Psychology article, Dr Monika Neff Lind and her co-authors argue that there is no solid scientific evidence behind these bans, and reason to beli...

Enabled by global heating, mosquito-borne chikungunya virus is likely to spread into temperate regions

Disease in snakes could pile up following a first infection, with some species in the US particularly affected by certain pathogens, study of wild snakes shows