As plants take in sunlight and carbon dioxide to grow, they also respire or “breathe” out part of that carbon dioxide back…
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Climate Change Coming Down the Mountain: How Changes in the Water Cycle are Affecting Mountain EcosystemsRead more
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Biodiversity Mark Twain and The Big Stump: Can We Save Nature From Ourselves?Read more
As you enter Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park from highway 180 there is a small little parking lot to the side…
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Innovation One Small Step for Preprints, One Giant Step Forward for Open Scientific CommunicationsRead more
Thanks to our recent partnership with bioRxiv, PLOS authors will have the choice of posting their submitted manuscript on the bioRxiv preprint…
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Innovation Reproducibility and Recognition: One year laterRead more
This blog is authored by PLOS staff with contributions by Lenny Teytelman, protocols.io CEO. For many scientists, there is a common frustration…
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In the News Display without Delay: Search, Browse & Cite PLOS Articles with Quick Abstracts from Google ScholarRead more
Working off your mobile device? No problem. We just made it easier to use your phone to find and scan PLOS articles…
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Dinosaurs Stepping Out: New Ornithomimosaur from Arkansas DescribedRead more
Last week, a new species of dinosaur was described in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The dinosaur, Arkansaurus fridayi, is an ornithomimosaur…
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Synthetic Biology The role of synthetic biology as a basic research facilitatorRead more
Last December, a very interesting journal article was published in Science about the reconstitution of functional plant RuBisCo in E. coli…
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post Book review: ‘A Crack in Creation.’ Jennifer Doudna’s journey of discoveryRead more
Famed CRISPR researcher Jennifer Doudna, along with a past student Samuel Sternberg (starting his own lab in at Columbia University), wrote an…
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Biodiversity The “Big Ideas” in EcologyRead more
If you want to get “technical” about it, dentistry, is about 13,000 years old. However, while the fillings Neolithic peoples performed with…
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Advocacy PLOS Collaborates on Recommendations to Improve Transparency for Author ContributionsRead more
In a new report, a group convened by the US National Academy of Sciences and including a dozen journal editors reflects on…
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Assessment PLOS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Enter Agreement to Enable Preprint Posting on bioRxivRead more
Editor’s Note: This press release also appears on the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Newsstand. Public Library of Science (PLOS) and Cold Spring…
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post Open science: Sharing is caring, but is privacy theft? by David Mehler and Kevin WeinerRead more
Open Science (OS) is a movement toward increased sharing among scientists of their data, their materials, their computer code, their papers, and…