Although we’d like to believe that people determine how to vote based on relevant political issues, research has shown that countless subtle…

On Monday evening, Hurricane Sandy brought destruction to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the United States, leaving much of the area…

Happy Halloween to those goblins and ghouls amongst you! Before you go trick-or-treating tonight, let’s wrap up our month-long series on creepy…

Plants may not generally be associated with the spooky sentiments of Halloween, but put the right Hitchcock soundtrack with the video below…

Lying awake and listening for demonic footsteps after Paranormal Activity 4 may turn out to be more helpful to your mental health…

To continue our spooktacular posts this October, we bring you a study which may have some arachnophobes rethinking their next vacation destination…

Maybe you’ve seen a ghost, or been told the house in this picture is haunted, or watched enough scary movies to associate…

Being buried in lava and piles of ash can quickly kill, whether above ground or underwater, but research published in PLOS ONE…

Ethics is a cornerstone of science, informing everything from how we design our experiments to what we do with the resulting…

October is here, which means the holiday season is almost upon us – starting, of course, with Halloween. PLOS ONE doesn’t publish…

If the thought of a calm moonlit night out on a tropical island makes you want to be at the beach, you…

For the XVIII International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria Conference in Rio de Janeiro, PLOS ONE is highlighting eight recent articles. …