In this week’s PLoS ONE media digest: a new species of giant, orb-weaving spider; the grassland habitats of early humans—and of present-day…

We must be approaching Halloween because after last week’s news stories about the discovery of an (almost) herbivorous spider, reported in Current…

This week – 19th-23rd October 2009 – is the Open Access week around the world – fitting nicely with the 5th birthday…

Today PLoS ONE launched a new Collection titled “Structural Biology and Human Health: Medically Relevant Proteins from the SGC” which makes use…

This week’s featured PLoS ONE image is taken from an article entitled, ECG Response of Koalas to Tourists Proximity: A Preliminary Study…

As of 10.55 am PST this issue was resolved and all PLoS sites are now working again. You are being redirected to…

On Friday last week I had the opportunity to present PLoS ONE (and, to some extent, PLoS) to a conference at UCSF…

Earlier in the week, we reported that a number of recent palaeontology articles published in PLoS ONE had been highlighted by the…

It was too difficult to choose just one new PLoS ONE article with interesting multimedia to highlight this week, especially when I…

The inaugural meeting of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) was held in Lund University a couple of weeks ago. Audio…

As you may have read in a post from Bex, PLoS ONE has published articles on organisms from A to Z. Under…

As mentioned by PLoS ONE Section Editor, Andy Farke in his blog, the past few weeks have seen a number of exciting…