Few of us remember how easily we learned language as children. Although the acquisition wasn’t always graceful then—‘awry’ never sounds the same…

Although the vibrant, waifish petals of the poppy may appear inviting to the casual observer, a closer look reveals a pricklier message…

The Black Death, a pandemic at its height in Europe during the mid-14th century, was a virulent killer. It was so effective…

The pygmy blue whale, cousin to the more well-known Antarctic blue whale, has an enigmatic history. Pygmy blue whales dwell in vast…

Like PLOS ONE, the English language is rapidly taking over the world (we kid). In 2010, English clocked in at over 360…

Cancer, the transformation of normal cells into malignant tumor cells, reigns among diseases as one of the leading causes of death around…

With more than 7.1 billion people living across the globe, cities house more than 50% of the world’s population. The United Nations…

Although seaweed is the dominant habitat-forming organism along temperate coastlines, one of the major macroalgae of Australia, Phyllospora comosa, has disappeared over…

From the 9th to the mid-14th century, the region of Angkor in modern-day northern Cambodia was the capital of Khmer Empire…

Imagine a world where sight is limited by the extreme scattering of photons and smell is ineffective due to lethargic diffusion of…

Those of us who commute to the PLOS San Francisco office have noticed the emergence of bike share stations cropping up along…

Borneo: the third largest island in the world, one-third of which is home to 220,000 km2 of diverse and beautiful rainforest. Borneo…