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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Aggregators Worms in the Big Apple: Identifying Patterns of Toxocariasis Infection in New York City
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Aggregators Detection by Dung: Don’t Eat the Brown Snow
Researchers in Antarctica on a mission to locate penguin colonies found two groups of seabirds, thanks to a little help from satellites…
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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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Aggregators “Low T” and Prescription Testosterone: Public Viewing of the Science Does Matter
On January 29th 2014, researchers from UCLA, NCI, and Consolidated Research, Inc. published an observational study in PLOS ONE detailing increased cardiovascular…
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Aggregators Does the Fox Say, “I Love Living in the City?”
Most wild animals move away from areas heavily populated by humans, noisy cars, and sparse natural habitat. Some, however, thrive in…
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Aggregators Supporting Hepatitis Awareness with Open Access Hepatitis Research
World Hepatitis Day was July 28th, and PLOS ONE is observing the day by raising awareness with a few of our many…
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Aggregators What’s in a Look? For Wolves, Maybe Everything
It’s been said that the eyes are the windows to the soul. They allow us to communicate feelings across a room…
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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…
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Aggregators Squirrels – Nut Sleuths or Just Nuts?
Crazed squirrels: we’ve all seen them. Some dashing toward you only to stop short long enough to glare with beady eyes before…
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Images A Disease of Considerable Antiquity: Cancer Detected in a Nubian Skeleton
Cancer, the transformation of normal cells into malignant tumor cells, reigns among diseases as one of the leading causes of death around…