We often make new discoveries about our ancient ancestors and how they may have behaved, and we sometimes find the evidence right…
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Aggregators Our 200,000-Year-Old Ancestors: Neanderthal Bones in Northern FranceRead more
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Aggregators The Rights Stuff: Copyright, Scientific Debate, and ReuseRead more
We’ve all monkeyed around trying to sort out the ownership of published content. In the scientific community, copyright and its (mis)application in…
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Aggregators Next Steps in ReproducibilityRead more
In last week’s Nature and Science, the outcome of a meeting convened by NIH, Nature, and Science to discuss the issue of…
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Aggregators Fecal Matters: A Stepping Stool to Understanding Indigenous CulturesRead more
Humans differ by opinions, traits, and baseball team preferences. But one constant factor unifies all humans–we excrete feces, and scientists have recognized…
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Aggregators PLOS ONE’s Spookiest Images of 2014Read more
As we take a look back at research articles published so far in PLOS ONE in 2014, we realize we have no…
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Ecology You Live in What Kind of Home? A-nem-mo-ne-men… me-ne-mo-nee!Read more
Clownfish Find Refuge among the Toxic Tentacles of Sea Anemones As we’ve seen in the movies, the world is a dangerous place…
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Aggregators Does Urbanization Always Drive Economic Growth? Not Exactly…Read more
We often think of cities as major drivers of economic development and growth. Big cities expand our access to infrastructure like public…
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Collections Meet PLOS at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2014Read more
We are excited to announce that PLOS will be exhibiting at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2014 Annual Meeting from 5-8th November…
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Aggregators Going PRO – clinical trials must plan to capture patient-reported outcomesRead more
Post authored by David Moher All participants in research are important. What patients in clinical trials tell us about treatments – patient-reported…
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Topic Focus Hey, Excuse Me… Is This Guy Boring You?Read more
Imagine that you’re sitting on a Cretan beach. The sun’s shining and waves are lapping on shore, when suddenly a set of…
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Aggregators Worms in the Big Apple: Identifying Patterns of Toxocariasis Infection in New York CityRead more
For thousands of Americans, roundworm infection may pose a serious threat to their health. Toxocariasis, an illness caused by a parasitic roundworm…
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Worth A Thousand Words Catch the Katydid if You CanRead more
It’s too fast to catch, spears smaller insects with spiny legs, and sings a song that mirrors the syllables of its…