World Food Day is celebrated each year on October 16. This year’s theme is “Water is life, water is food. Leave no…
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Topic Focus World Food Day 2023 – Recent research at PLOS ONE
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Events Unleashing the Power of Collaboration: Open Science on Earth Day
Today, April 22nd, we celebrate Earth Day, a critical reminder of the need to protect and preserve our planet. It serves as…
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Aggregators I Know What You Think: Collective Intelligence in Online Communication
Have you ever wondered what factors may shape the interactions we have in online chatrooms? With the advent of the Internet 20+…
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Aggregators Small Talk: When Bacterial Chatter Gets Invasive
Sticks and stones may break our bones but microbes’ “words” may hurt us. Breast cancer is a threat to men and women…
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Aggregators PLOS ONE Update on Peer Review Process
There has been a great deal of community discussion in the last few days about a referee report that was sent to…
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Aggregators Out on a Limb: Dwindling Trees in Cities
Of all the environmental resources we take for granted, large, older trees might be near the top of the list. Not…
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Aggregators Warming in Our Winter Wonderland: The Role of Ice in Penguin, Polar Bear, and Ivory Gull Survival
As winter grips the Northern Hemisphere tightly, many of us are happy to retreat to the comfort of our warm homes. But…
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Featured Image Fossilized Footprints Lead Scientists Down a Prehistoric Path
Whether tromping alone or running in a pack, all prehistoric creatures got around somehow. Paleontologists can use fossilized bones to learn more…
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Ecology You Live in What Kind of Home? A-nem-mo-ne-men… me-ne-mo-nee!
Clownfish Find Refuge among the Toxic Tentacles of Sea Anemones As we’ve seen in the movies, the world is a dangerous place…
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Aggregators Going PRO – clinical trials must plan to capture patient-reported outcomes
Post authored by David Moher All participants in research are important. What patients in clinical trials tell us about treatments – patient-reported…
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Topic Focus Hey, Excuse Me… Is This Guy Boring You?
Imagine that you’re sitting on a Cretan beach. The sun’s shining and waves are lapping on shore, when suddenly a set of…
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Aggregators Detection by Dung: Don’t Eat the Brown Snow
Researchers in Antarctica on a mission to locate penguin colonies found two groups of seabirds, thanks to a little help from satellites…