PLOS announced today that after an extensive search, Dr. Joerg Heber has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of PLOS ONE. Heber will be responsible…
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Open Access PLOS appoints Dr. Joerg Heber Editor-in-Chief of PLOS ONERead more
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Mammals How did wombat noses evolve?Read more
One of the great questions in life. Clearly, this had been plaguing Alana Sharp, a postdoctoral researcher from Australia, so much that…
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Biodiversity Cities as Novel Ecosystems: Adaptions to Urban ConditionsRead more
A guest post from PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow, Liz Kimbrough, on research from the Ecological Society of America Scientific Meeting in Ft…
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Biodiversity The fore-front of Restoration Ecology at ESA 2016Read more
A guest post from PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow, Liz Kimbrough, on research from the Ecological Society of America Scientific Meeting in Ft…
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Ecology What Does a Dewlap Do?Read more
Dewlaps are loose flaps of skin that hang from the necks of some animals, notably certain lizards, birds, and hoofed mammals. These…
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post Ketones to combat Alzheimer’s diseaseRead more
Despite decades of efforts to develop a drug that prevents or cures Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most prevalent form of dementia afflicting…
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Neuroscience Arts and Neuroscience, the beauty revealedRead more
The FENS meeting recently held in Copenhagen (2-6 July 2016) was not only an international brainstorming of groundbreaking science but also an…
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Assessment Author Credit: PLOS and CRediT UpdateRead more
Our January update on author credit focused on how PLOS was moving forward with the use of ORCID identifiers (iDs) for researcher…
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Dinosaurs Chew on this! Mammal-like mastication for the dinosaur LeptoceratopsRead more
We all chew, but hardly ever think about it. Even a moment’s consideration, though, reveals how complex of a process it actually…
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Assessment Measuring Up: Impact Factors Do Not Reflect Article Citation RatesRead more
This special blog post is co-authored by PLOS Executive Editor Véronique Kiermer, Université de Montréal Associate Professor of Information Science Vincent…
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Dinosaurs Identifying the sex of a T. rexRead more
In living animals, it’s pretty easy to tell if one is a male or a female. You look at their, er, dangly…
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post Brain signatures of spontaneous thoughtsRead more
Without prompting, they fill our stream of consciousness–Sudden amusement at a joke you heard yesterday, or a flash of panic over an…