Laughter, fungi, pipettes and ants – last month, PLOS ONE papers made headlines with an array of research. Here are some of…
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Aggregators Making the News in MayRead more
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Aggregators What Influences Voter Behavior?Read more
Although we’d like to believe that people determine how to vote based on relevant political issues, research has shown that countless subtle…
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Fun Worth a Thousand WordsRead more
How many arrows are depicted in the photo above? How many can you find? One? Five? The answer is 118. In research…
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Aggregators Spiders, Birds, and Snakes, Oh my!Read more
To continue our spooktacular posts this October, we bring you a study which may have some arachnophobes rethinking their next vacation destination…
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Aggregators PLOS ONE News and Media RoundupRead more
In August, PLOS ONE papers made the news for research on morality in infants, the first domesticated turkeys, the dangers of sea…
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Aggregators Research Challenging Beliefs About Body Weight StorifiedRead more
The current top three most viewed papers in PLOS ONE all address human body weight, and all three present results that may…
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Aggregators Citizen science in genetic genealogy – a PLOS ONE paper StorifiedRead more
Read our captured Storify summary of reactions to Rocca RA et al. (2012) Discovery of Western European R1b1a2 Y Chromosome Variants in…
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Aggregators PLOS ONE News and Media RoundupRead more
Last month, the media covered PLOS ONE papers on germs in airports, skin cancer in fish, a potentially life extending pill, and…
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Aggregators PLOS ONE Storify of Richard Wiseman’s paper “The Eyes Don’t Have It: Lie Detection and Neuro-Linguistic Programming”Read more
Read our captured Storify summary of the reaction to Wiseman R, Watt C, ten Brinke L, Porter S, Couper S-L, et al…
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Aggregators PLoS ONE News and Media RoundupRead more
Last month, some PLoS ONE papers in the news included research on: Body odor, robot mimicry and more! New research shows that…
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Aggregators Tweet for the sake of scienceRead more
Social networking is a big deal, and not just for smart phone-addicted teens and reconnecting with long-lost friends. Twitter has grown into…
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Article-Level Metrics New Twitter Functionality on PLoS ONERead more
Recently, we added a nice new functionality to the PLoS ONE site. On the homepage, you will now see a ‘twitter’ widget…