Plants may not generally be associated with the spooky sentiments of Halloween, but put the right Hitchcock soundtrack with the video below…
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Aggregators Halloween Highlights: Carnivorous PlantsRead more
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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 Factoring in fear: what scares us most?Read more
Maybe you’ve seen a ghost, or been told the house in this picture is haunted, or watched enough scary movies to associate…
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Aggregators Halloween Highlights: Spooktacular Science in PLOS ONERead more
October is here, which means the holiday season is almost upon us – starting, of course, with Halloween. PLOS ONE doesn’t publish…
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Aggregators Stein, Tankard, Pint, Boot: Different beer glasses affect drinking speedRead more
As we enter the Labor Day holiday weekend here in the US, many Americans will probably be celebrating with a beer (or…
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Aggregators Happy Arbor Day!Read more
Today’s internationally recognized tree holiday was founded in 1872 by J. Sterling Morton, former Secretary of Agriculture to US President Grover Cleveland…
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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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Author Spotlight Halloween Highlight 2011: An Author Spotlight with David Hughes and Harry EvansRead more
In the spirit of Halloween, we’ve asked Dr. David Hughes of Penn State University and Dr. Harry Evans of Federal University of…
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Fun Newly updated PLoS ONE homepageRead more
Today we’ve added a few new features to the PLoS ONE homepage. The webpage now includes a Most Viewed Tab, which consists…
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Fun Worth a Thousand Words: Mitotic Spindle CupcakesRead more
This post was written by, Krista Hoff, a publications assistant for PLoS ONE. To celebrate publication of their recent research, “Mitotic Spindle…
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Fun Worth a Thousand WordsRead more
If you are a fan of the World Cup, you are familiar with the ear-splitting sound of the vuvuzela. Besides being hard…