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 May
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Aggregators What Influences Voter Behavior?
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 Words
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!
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 Roundup
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 Storified
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 Storified
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 Roundup
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 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 Roundup
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 science
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 ONE
Recently, we added a nice new functionality to the PLoS ONE site. On the homepage, you will now see a ‘twitter’ widget…