The current top three most viewed papers in PLOS ONE all address human body weight, and all three present results that may…

The flowers of different species of Loasaceae, shown above, have developed impressive techniques to lure pollinators. Initially, the stamens are hidden in…

Today PLOS ONE is happy to announce the launch of the Synthetic Biology Collection, including over 50 papers published in the last…

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Last month, the media covered PLOS ONE papers on germs in airports, skin cancer in fish, a potentially life extending pill, and…

Read our captured Storify summary of the reaction to Wiseman R, Watt C, ten Brinke L, Porter S, Couper S-L, et al…

How do we determine whether two animals are of the same species? It is not enough to judge based on similar appearance…

Why is it that comment forums provided by online scholarly journals for post-publication review are so consistently underutilized, even though online forums…

The newly described genus, Bifidunguiglenea gen. nov., which is part of the Glenea gestroi Gahan species was previously undescribed. However, a recent…

As we are now a month into the summer season, we wanted to let our authors know in advance that they may…

It seems like just about everyone these days is stressed out and working too hard. We know it’s not good for us…

Last month, some PLoS ONE papers in the news included research on: Body odor, robot mimicry and more! New research shows that…