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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post Ketones to combat Alzheimer’s diseaseRead more
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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…
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post Restoring what was lost: semi-natural grassland habitat restoration in SwedenRead more
The above image was taken in Hjelle, Norway (creative commons license). Human domination of earth’s ecosystems is well documented. Past work…
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Mammals Don’t Call Me TarpanRead more
Note: This guest post was contributed by Andrea Castelli. Andrea had published this in an earlier version elsewhere, but has updated it…
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Climate Change Hornbills’ Giant Beaks Help Them Cool Off in the Desert HeatRead more
Top Image: Yellow-billed hornbill, Dean Portelli. While you and I rely on sweating to cool off, birds have two primary thermoregulatory strategies…
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Synthetic Biology iGEM blogs: Protecting 18000 year old paintings by iGEM ToulouseRead more
by @iGEM_ToulouseFR. The Lascaux cave, currently listed as World Heritage Site by UNESCO, was discovered in 1940 in France and opened after World…
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PLOS ONE A Jurassic World of SalamandersRead more
Salamanders are fairly adorable, but often forgotten, animals. Because their skeletons are pretty delicate, the fossil record for this group is spotty, with many…