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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Climate Change Hornbills’ Giant Beaks Help Them Cool Off in the Desert HeatRead more
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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…
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In the News PLOS Supports Early Career Researchers with Travel Award and Broader InitiativeRead more
PLOS supports the growth of Early Career Researchers (ECRs) as they build skills in science communication, become champions of Open Science and…
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Basic Neuroscience Sugar, the addictive enemy hiding in plain sightRead more
Could you image a world without sugar? A life without that spectacular sweet taste in your mouth? Sugar is something that we…
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From the community From the Community: Statistics – When Confounding Variables Are Out of Control, Neuroskeptic on a PLOS ONE paperRead more
[This post originally appeared on Neuroskeptic blog on April 2, 2016] Does ice cream cause drownings? Let’s think about this statistically. Consider…
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Dinosaurs How many dinosaurs were there?Read more
There are more than 11,000 species of bird living on Earth today. If you recognise that birds are living dinosaurs, which overwhelming…
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Synthetic Biology From the Community: Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genome 3.0 Evokes Classic Experiments | By Ricki Lewis, PLOS DNA Science BlogRead more
J. Craig Venter and his colleagues at Synthetic Genomics Inc update their efforts to create a “hypothetical minimal genome” in this week’s Science. “JCVI-syn3.0,&rdquo…
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post A mathematical view on personality, by Solve SæbøRead more
This post was originally published at blogg.nmbu.no/solvesabo and has been reposted with permission from the author, Solve Sæbø. Both personality and consciousness were properties…
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Ecology The Enemy of My Enemy is…My Alligator? Mutualism and protection rackets in the Florida Everglades.Read more
When you think of alligators the word friendly isn’t usually at the top of the list of descriptors, but for alligators in…
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Synthetic Biology Open Source Hardware is an opportunity for Synthetic Biology research – the DocuBricks approach by Tobias WenzelRead more
by Tobias Wenzel Open Source Hardware is an exciting new trend “This microscope is one of the cleverest pieces of open source…
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Dinosaurs 190 million years of tetrapod biodiversityRead more
Tetrapod is the name given to any vertebrate animal with four (tetra) legs (pod). There are more than 30,000 living species of…