Post By Caroline Fox & Brett Favaro Most scientists are passionate about their work, but enthusiasm can sometimes be hard to maintain…
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Author Spotlight Canada’s Species at Risk Rarely Recover: The Story Behind the PLOS ONE Article
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Article-Level Metrics Let Me Count the Ways: Top 20 PLOS ONE Articles Based on Article-Level Metrics for 2014
At PLOS ONE, we’ve been compiling year-end lists to reflect on the most popular articles and research videos published in our journal…
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Aggregators PLOS ONE’s Top 5 Videos of 2014
Throughout the year we highlight research images that are worth a thousand words. For this year-end list, we’d like to extend the…
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Aggregators Fecal Matters: A Stepping Stool to Understanding Indigenous Cultures
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 2014
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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Collections Meet PLOS at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2014
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 Article-Level Metrics Highlight: Top 10 of the Summer
Having just published our 100,000th article, the staff at PLOS ONE realizes that easily finding research papers among our wide selection is…
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Aggregators Sharing is Caring: Varied Diets in Dinosaurs Promoted Coexistence
Everyone loves a good dinosaur discovery. Though they’re few and far between, sometimes we get lucky, finding feather imprints, mohawks, or birthing…
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Fun If at First You Don’t Succeed, Sit Back and Listen
Few of us remember how easily we learned language as children. Although the acquisition wasn’t always graceful then—‘awry’ never sounds the same…
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Fun Not Just a Pretty Face: Island Poppies Defend With Prickles
Although the vibrant, waifish petals of the poppy may appear inviting to the casual observer, a closer look reveals a pricklier message…
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Aggregators Music, Language, and the Brain: Are You Experienced?
Have you ever thought about everything that goes into playing music or speaking two languages? Musicians for example need to listen to…
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Aggregators Poll the Audience: Crowd-sourcing the Name of a New Species of Wasp
A scientifically literate society is one that can make educated, informed decisions based on the best available evidence. While much of the…