Literary trends come and go; one year’s vampire is another year’s zombie. According to new research published today in PLOS ONE, certain…
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Internet/Blogging What are you in the mood for?: Emotional trends in 20th century booksRead more
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Aggregators Wrapped up in a Book: The Role of Emotional Engagement in ReadingRead more
Have you ever gotten lost in the pages of a good book? If so, you may have been more empathetic afterward. According…
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Aggregators Animal Heartbreakers? Animals, Behavior, and “Love”Read more
Animal emotion remains a fairly contentious area of scientific research, but there is a growing body of evidence to support the idea…
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Internet/Blogging PLOS ONE News and Blog RoundupRead more
This January, PLOS ONE papers caught the media’s eye for research on shark embryos, trustworthy brown eyes, acts of kindness, and more…
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Aggregators Greetings from Lake Socompa! A Diversity of Life in Extreme ConditionsRead more
The photo above comes to us from a remote part of the Andes, at the base of the active volcano Socompa. Lake…
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Aggregators PLOS ONE News and Blog Round-Up: 2012 in ReviewRead more
In this round-up, we would like to share with you some of the PLOS ONE articles covered by the media in 2012…
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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 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 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 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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Internet/Blogging How deep social network “roots” help scientists communicate their researchRead more
There’s been a lot of discussion recently about how social networks can specifically help scientists collaborate and spread their messages more effectively…